girls:
5 births since 2022
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
127 births since 1993
#4459 (3rd percentile)
overall:
132 births since 1993
#7607 (2nd percentile)
The name Coyote is the #7,607 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 132 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,459 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2022.
Coyote first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2022 for girls). Birth data for Coyote is available in 12 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (12 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 Coyote has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Coyote reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #887) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Coyote is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #897 (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million.
For girls, Coyote reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #958) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Coyote".
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Our model has identified 18 different pronunciations for the name Coyote. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.6% confident that Coyote is pronounced as kai-OH-tee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAI-oht, at 16.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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