girls:
10.8k births since 1881
#1518 (73rd percentile)
boys:
191 births since 1916
#4395 (4th percentile)
overall:
11k births since 1881
#2516 (67th percentile)
The name Coral is the #2,516 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,952 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 67.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 67.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,518 (73.4% percentile) for all time with 10,761 births since 1881. For boys, it ranks #4,395 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 191 births since 1916.
Coral first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for girls and 1916 for boys).
The name Coral has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Coral reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 23.4% percentile (ranked #718) with 111 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 137 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Coral ranks #849 for girls (10.4% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 42.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Coral reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #495) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.4% 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 "Coral".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Coral is pronounced as KAW-ruhl, which has 2 syllables.
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