girls:
267 births since 2008
#5449 (5th percentile)
boys:
407 births since 2007
#4179 (9th percentile)
overall:
674 births since 2007
#7065 (9th percentile)
The name Eh is the #7,065 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 674 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 8.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,179 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 407 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,449 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 267 births since 2008.
Eh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2008 for girls).
The name Eh has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (60.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 57.1% of babies named Eh were boys.
For boys, Eh reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #866) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eh ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 30.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eh reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #931) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Eh ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 32.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eh".
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