girls:
824 births since 1979
#4892 (14th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2001
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
829 births since 1979
#6910 (11th percentile)
The name Chimere is the #6,910 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 829 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 10.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,892 (14.4% percentile) for all time with 824 births since 1979. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2001.
Chimere first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (1979 for girls and 2001 for boys). Birth data for Chimere is available in 23 out of the 37 years between 1979 and 2015 (23 years for girls and 1 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 Chimere has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Chimere reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 20.7% percentile (ranked #623) with 94 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 94 births per million (ranked 20.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
For boys, Chimere reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #825) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chimere".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Chimere. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 43.8% confident that Chimere is pronounced as shih-MEAR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is chih-MAIR, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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