boys:
134 births since 1913
#4452 (3rd percentile)
overall:
134 births since 1913
#7605 (2nd percentile)
The name Hajime is the #7,605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 134 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,452 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 134 births since 1913.
Hajime first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (first recorded for boys in 1913). Birth data for Hajime is available in 15 out of the 79 years between 1913 and 1991. 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.
For boys, Hajime reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #536) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 14 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hajime".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Hajime. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Hajime is pronounced as hah-JEE-may, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hah-JEE-meh, at 15.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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