boys:
690 births since 1914
#3897 (15th percentile)
overall:
690 births since 1914
#7049 (9th percentile)
The name Higinio is the #7,049 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 690 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 8.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,897 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 690 births since 1914.
Higinio first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for boys in 1914). Birth data for Higinio is available in 88 out of the 100 years between 1914 and 2013. 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, Higinio reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #627) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Higinio".
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Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Higinio. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 18.2% confident that Higinio is pronounced as ih-HIH-nee-oh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is hee-JIH-nee-oh, at 12.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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