boys:
2k births since 2001
#2813 (39th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 2001
#5779 (25th percentile)
The name Diesel is the #5,779 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,993 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 25.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,813 (38.6% percentile) for all time with 1,993 births since 2001.
Diesel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (first recorded for boys in 2001).
For boys, Diesel reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 16.7% percentile (ranked #753) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 76 births per million (ranked 16.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Diesel ranks #856 for boys (6.0% percentile) with 33 births per million, which is 43.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Diesel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Diesel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.7% confident that Diesel is pronounced as DEE-zuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-suhl, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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