girls:
47 births since 1952
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
31 births since 1953
#4555 (1st percentile)
overall:
78 births since 1952
#7661 (1st percentile)
The name Buff is the #7,661 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 78 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1952. For boys, it ranks #4,555 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1953.
Buff first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (1952 for girls and 1953 for boys). Birth data for Buff is available in 8 out of the 10 years between 1952 and 1961 (6 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Buff has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.3% of all recorded births). In 1961, 0.0% of babies named Buff were girls.
For girls, Buff reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #718) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
For boys, Buff reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #637) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1955, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1961.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Buff".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Buff. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Buff is pronounced as buhf, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is boof, at 10.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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