girls:
45 births since 1992
#5671 (1st percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1992
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
52 births since 1992
#7687 (1st percentile)
The name Iniki is the #7,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 52 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,671 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 45 births since 1992. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1992.
Iniki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 . Birth data for Iniki is available in 2 out of the 2 years between 1992 and 1993 (2 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Iniki has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.5% of all recorded births being female. In 1993, 100.0% of babies named Iniki were girls.
For girls, Iniki reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #836) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile).
For boys, Iniki reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #768) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile).
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iniki".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Iniki. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Iniki is pronounced as ih-NEE-kee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ee-NEE-kee, at 39.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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