girls:
227 births since 1990
#5489 (4th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2007
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
232 births since 1990
#7507 (3rd percentile)
The name Jinan is the #7,507 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 232 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,489 (3.9% percentile) for all time with 227 births since 1990. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2007.
Jinan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for girls and 2007 for boys). Birth data for Jinan is available in 30 out of the 34 years between 1990 and 2023 (29 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 Jinan has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jinan reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #959) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jinan ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 50.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jinan reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #883) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jinan".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Jinan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.1% confident that Jinan is pronounced as jih-NAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JIH-nuhn, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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