girls:
7 births since 1929
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1913
#3483 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1913
#6612 (15th percentile)
The name Hoover is the #6,612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,127 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 14.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,483 (24.0% percentile) for all time with 1,120 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1929.
Hoover first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 1929 for girls). Birth data for Hoover is available in 48 out of the 110 years between 1913 and 2022 (48 years for boys and 1 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 Hoover has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Hoover reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 39.5% percentile (ranked #329) with 224 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 224 births per million (ranked 39.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Hoover reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #590) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Hoover".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Hoover. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.5% confident that Hoover is pronounced as HUE-ver, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HUH-ver, at 2.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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