girls:
32 births since 1925
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
111 births since 1915
#4475 (2nd percentile)
overall:
143 births since 1915
#7596 (2nd percentile)
The name Kazumi is the #7,596 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 143 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,475 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 111 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 1925.
Kazumi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1925 for girls). Birth data for Kazumi is available in 19 out of the 106 years between 1915 and 2020 (15 years for boys and 6 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 Kazumi has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2020, 0.0% of babies named Kazumi were boys. Interestingly, until around 2012, the name was more popular for boys (91.0% boys from 1915 to 2011), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2012 to 2020).
For boys, Kazumi reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #498) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1931.
For girls, Kazumi reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #602) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kazumi".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kazumi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.1% confident that Kazumi is pronounced as kah-ZUE-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuh-ZUE-mee, at 42.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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