girls:
805 births since 1880
#4911 (14th percentile)
overall:
805 births since 1880
#6934 (10th percentile)
The name Elmina is the #6,934 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 805 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 10.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,911 (14.1% percentile) for all time with 805 births since 1880.
Elmina has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Elmina is available in 86 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Elmina reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #552) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 82 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Elmina ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elmina".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Elmina. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.0% confident that Elmina is pronounced as ehl-MEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-mee-nuh, at 22.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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