girls:
5 births since 2019
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
70 births since 2007
#4516 (1st percentile)
overall:
75 births since 2007
#7664 (1st percentile)
The name Innocent is the #7,664 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 75 recorded births since 2007. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,516 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 70 births since 2007. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2019.
Innocent first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2007 (2007 for boys and 2019 for girls). Birth data for Innocent is available in 11 out of the 17 years between 2007 and 2023 (11 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 Innocent has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Innocent reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #919) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Innocent ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 51.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Innocent reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #945) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Innocent".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Innocent. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.0% confident that Innocent is pronounced as IH-nuh-suhnt, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-NUH-suhnt, at 10.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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