girls:
302 births since 1912
#5414 (5th percentile)
boys:
925 births since 1911
#3666 (20th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1911
#6513 (16th percentile)
The name Hiawatha is the #6,513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,227 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 15.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,666 (20.0% percentile) for all time with 925 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,414 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 302 births since 1912.
Hiawatha first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Hiawatha is available in 75 out of the 94 years between 1911 and 2004 (75 years for boys and 44 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 Hiawatha has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2004, 100.0% of babies named Hiawatha were boys.
For boys, Hiawatha reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #507) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
For girls, Hiawatha reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #598) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hiawatha".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Hiawatha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Hiawatha is pronounced as hai-uh-WAH-thuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hee-uh-WAH-thuh, at 15.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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