girls:
45 births since 1977
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
32 births since 1985
#4554 (1st percentile)
overall:
77 births since 1977
#7662 (1st percentile)
The name Femi is the #7,662 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,554 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 1985.
Femi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for girls and 1985 for boys). Birth data for Femi is available in 11 out of the 47 years between 1977 and 2023 (7 years for girls and 6 years for boys). 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 Femi has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (58.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Femi were girls.
For girls, Femi reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #943) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Femi is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #943 (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million.
For boys, Femi reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #798) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Femi".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Femi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.1% confident that Femi is pronounced as FEH-mee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FAY-mee, at 2.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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