girls:
52 births since 1994
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
275 births since 1914
#4311 (6th percentile)
overall:
327 births since 1914
#7412 (4th percentile)
The name Kearney is the #7,412 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 327 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 4.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,311 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 275 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1994.
Kearney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Kearney is available in 46 out of the 99 years between 1914 and 2012 (38 years for boys and 9 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 Kearney has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2012, 0.0% of babies named Kearney were boys. Interestingly, until around 1994, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1914 to 1993), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (89.7% girls from 1994 to 2012).
For boys, Kearney reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #525) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 12 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
For girls, Kearney reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kearney".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kearney. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Kearney is pronounced as KER-nee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KAHR-nee, at 40.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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