girls:
5 births since 2014
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
265 births since 1913
#4321 (6th percentile)
overall:
270 births since 1913
#7469 (3rd percentile)
The name Katsumi is the #7,469 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 270 recorded births since 1913. This represents the 3.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,321 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 265 births since 1913. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2014.
Katsumi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1913 (1913 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Katsumi is available in 23 out of the 102 years between 1913 and 2014 (22 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 Katsumi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2014, 0.0% of babies named Katsumi were boys. Interestingly, until around 2005, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1913 to 2004), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2005 to 2014).
For boys, Katsumi reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #528) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1923, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1943.
For girls, Katsumi reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #967) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Katsumi".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Katsumi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.4% confident that Katsumi is pronounced as kaht-SUE-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHT-sue-mee, at 20.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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