girls:
102 births since 1979
#5614 (2nd percentile)
boys:
864 births since 1970
#3723 (19th percentile)
overall:
966 births since 1970
#6773 (12th percentile)
The name Iram is the #6,773 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 966 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 12.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,723 (18.8% percentile) for all time with 864 births since 1970. For girls, it ranks #5,614 (1.8% percentile) for all time with 102 births since 1979.
Iram first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for boys and 1979 for girls). Birth data for Iram is available in 48 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 18 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 Iram has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Iram were boys.
For boys, Iram reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #796) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 17 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Iram ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 79.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Iram reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #812) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iram".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Iram. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.0% confident that Iram is pronounced as AI-ruhm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-ruhm, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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