girls:
299 births since 1977
#5417 (5th percentile)
boys:
414 births since 1976
#4172 (9th percentile)
overall:
713 births since 1976
#7026 (9th percentile)
The name Khanh is the #7,026 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 713 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 9.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,172 (9.0% percentile) for all time with 414 births since 1976. For girls, it ranks #5,417 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 299 births since 1977.
Khanh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Khanh is available in 43 out of the 47 years between 1976 and 2022 (38 years for boys and 37 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 Khanh has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.1% of all recorded births). In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Khanh were boys.
For boys, Khanh reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #666) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
For girls, Khanh reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #790) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khanh".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Khanh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.1% confident that Khanh is pronounced as kahn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuhn, at 13.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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