girls:
6k births since 1990
#2143 (63rd percentile)
boys:
415 births since 1994
#4171 (9th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 1990
#3384 (56th percentile)
The name Emani is the #3,384 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,407 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 56.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,143 (62.5% percentile) for all time with 5,992 births since 1990. For boys, it ranks #4,171 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 415 births since 1994.
Emani first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for girls and 1994 for boys).
The name Emani has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.5% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 90.6% of babies named Emani were girls.
For girls, Emani reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 28.2% percentile (ranked #679) with 150 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 150 births per million (ranked 28.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Emani ranks #740 for girls (21.9% percentile) with 121 births per million, which is 80.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Emani reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #894) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Emani is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #894 (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emani".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Emani. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.5% confident that Emani is pronounced as ee-MAH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is eh-MAH-nee, at 15.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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