girls:
23 births since 2018
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
91 births since 1925
#4495 (2nd percentile)
overall:
114 births since 1925
#7625 (1st percentile)
The name Given is the #7,625 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 114 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,495 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 91 births since 1925. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2018.
Given first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (1925 for boys and 2018 for girls). Birth data for Given is available in 12 out of the 98 years between 1925 and 2022 (12 years for boys and 4 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 Given has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Given were boys.
For boys, Given reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #901) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Given reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Given".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Given. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.2% confident that Given is pronounced as GIH-vuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GIH-vihn, at 17.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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