girls:
15 births since 2015
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
13 births since 2014
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
28 births since 2014
#7711 (0th percentile)
The name Elshaddai 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 2014. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 2015. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2014.
Elshaddai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2014 (2014 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Elshaddai is available in 4 out of the 10 years between 2014 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.
The name Elshaddai is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Elshaddai were boys. Interestingly, until around 2015, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 2014 to 2014), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (68.2% girls from 2015 to 2023).
For girls, Elshaddai reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #956) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Elshaddai reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #909) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Currently, Elshaddai is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #909 (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Elshaddai".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Elshaddai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.8% confident that Elshaddai is pronounced as ehl-shah-DAI, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EHL-shuh-DAI, at 13.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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