girls:
5 births since 1925
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
11.9k births since 1882
#1055 (77th percentile)
overall:
11.9k births since 1882
#2413 (69th percentile)
The name Booker is the #2,413 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,899 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 68.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,055 (77.0% percentile) for all time with 11,894 births since 1882. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1925.
Booker first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (1882 for boys and 1925 for girls). Birth data for Booker is available in 135 out of the 142 years between 1882 and 2023 (135 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Booker has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Booker reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 45.9% percentile (ranked #272) with 318 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 763 births per million (ranked 44.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Booker ranks #740 for boys (18.8% percentile) with 96 births per million, which is 12.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Booker reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #614) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1925.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Booker".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Booker is pronounced as BOO-ker, which has 2 syllables.
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