girls:
4.6k births since 1885
#2509 (56th percentile)
boys:
10 births since 1994
#4576 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.6k births since 1885
#4026 (48th percentile)
The name China is the #4,026 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,603 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 48.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,509 (56.1% percentile) for all time with 4,593 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,576 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1994.
China first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1994 for boys). Birth data for China is available in 116 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (116 years for girls and 2 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 China has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, China reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 27.6% percentile (ranked #622) with 122 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 122 births per million (ranked 27.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, China ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, China reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #792) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "China".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name China. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that China is pronounced as CHAI-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEE-nuh, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like CH AY1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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