girls:
5 births since 2021
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
23 births since 2008
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
28 births since 2008
#7711 (0th percentile)
The name Eko is the #7,711 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 28 recorded births since 2008. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2008. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Eko first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2008 (2008 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Eko is available in 3 out of the 16 years between 2008 and 2023 (3 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 Eko has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Eko were boys.
For boys, Eko reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #923) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Eko ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 51.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eko reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eko".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Eko. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.8% confident that Eko is pronounced as EH-koh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-koh, at 26.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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