girls:
24 births since 2004
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.4k births since 2002
#3245 (29th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 2002
#6335 (18th percentile)
The name Kanye is the #6,335 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,409 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 18.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,245 (29.2% percentile) for all time with 1,385 births since 2002. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 2004.
Kanye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for boys and 2004 for girls).
The name Kanye has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kanye reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 47.6% percentile (ranked #444) with 241 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 241 births per million (ranked 47.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kanye ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kanye reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #923) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kanye".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kanye. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.1% confident that Kanye is pronounced as KAH-nyay, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-NYAY, at 21.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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