girls:
292 births since 1964
#5424 (5th percentile)
overall:
292 births since 1964
#7447 (4th percentile)
The name Katonya is the #7,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 292 recorded births since 1964. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,424 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 292 births since 1964.
Katonya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1964 (first recorded for girls in 1964). Birth data for Katonya is available in 27 out of the 32 years between 1964 and 1995. 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.
For girls, Katonya reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #720) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katonya".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Katonya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.1% confident that Katonya is pronounced as kuh-TOH-nyuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-TAW-nyuh, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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