girls:
17 births since 1974
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
463 births since 1974
#4123 (10th percentile)
overall:
480 births since 1974
#7259 (6th percentile)
The name Emeka is the #7,259 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 480 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 6.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,123 (10.0% percentile) for all time with 463 births since 1974. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1974.
Emeka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 . Birth data for Emeka is available in 48 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (48 years for boys and 3 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 Emeka has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Emeka reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #677) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Emeka ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 86.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Emeka reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #745) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Emeka".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Emeka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.9% confident that Emeka is pronounced as eh-MEH-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-MEH-kuh, at 14.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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