girls:
3.9k births since 1984
#2780 (51st percentile)
boys:
4.2k births since 1983
#1889 (59th percentile)
overall:
8k births since 1983
#3017 (61st percentile)
The name Infant is the #3,017 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,036 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 61.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,889 (58.8% percentile) for all time with 4,178 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #2,780 (51.4% percentile) for all time with 3,858 births since 1984.
Infant first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 1984 for girls). Birth data for Infant is available in 39 out of the 40 years between 1983 and 2022 (38 years for boys and 34 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 Infant is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2022, 54.5% of babies named Infant were girls.
For boys, Infant reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 53.0% percentile (ranked #362) with 277 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 277 births per million (ranked 53.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Infant reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 53.4% percentile (ranked #402) with 283 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 283 births per million (ranked 53.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Infant".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Infant. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Infant is pronounced as IHN-fuhnt, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihn-FUHNT, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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