girls:
7 births since 2020
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
588 births since 1983
#3998 (13th percentile)
overall:
595 births since 1983
#7144 (8th percentile)
The name Kerem is the #7,144 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 595 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 7.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,998 (12.8% percentile) for all time with 588 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2020.
Kerem first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 2020 for girls). Birth data for Kerem is available in 28 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (28 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 Kerem has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Kerem reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #887) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kerem ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 76.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kerem reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #938) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 4 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 "Kerem".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kerem. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.6% confident that Kerem is pronounced as KEH-ruhm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KEH-rehm, at 44.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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