girls:
25 births since 2021
#5691 (0th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 2021
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
32 births since 2021
#7707 (0th percentile)
The name Hiraeth is the #7,707 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32 recorded births since 2021. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,691 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 2021. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2021.
Hiraeth first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2021 .
The name Hiraeth has been given predominantly to girls, with 78.1% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Hiraeth were girls.
For girls, Hiraeth reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #953) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Hiraeth ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 71.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Hiraeth reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hiraeth".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Hiraeth. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.5% confident that Hiraeth is pronounced as HIH-rai-ehth, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HIH-raith, at 22.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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