girls:
5 births since 1993
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1969
#2797 (39th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1969
#5760 (26th percentile)
The name Jihad is the #5,760 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,017 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 25.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,797 (39.0% percentile) for all time with 2,012 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
Jihad first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Jihad is available in 52 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (52 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 Jihad has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jihad reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 11.2% percentile (ranked #723) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 46 births per million (ranked 11.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2001, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jihad ranks #887 for boys (2.6% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 34.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jihad reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #865) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jihad".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jihad. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.9% confident that Jihad is pronounced as jih-HAHD, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEE-had, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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