girls:
189 births since 1926
#5527 (3rd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2023
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
194 births since 1926
#7545 (2nd percentile)
The name Jinx is the #7,545 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 194 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,527 (3.3% percentile) for all time with 189 births since 1926. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2023.
Jinx first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (1926 for girls and 2023 for boys). Birth data for Jinx is available in 23 out of the 98 years between 1926 and 2023 (22 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 Jinx has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.4% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Jinx were girls.
For girls, Jinx reached its peak popularity in 1950, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #658) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1950, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Jinx reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #911) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Jinx is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #911 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jinx".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Jinx. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Jinx is pronounced as jihngks, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jihnks, at 26.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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