boys:
142 births since 2002
#4444 (3rd percentile)
overall:
142 births since 2002
#7597 (2nd percentile)
The name Khush is the #7,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 142 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,444 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 142 births since 2002.
Khush first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for boys in 2002). Birth data for Khush is available in 18 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Khush reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #866) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Despite a low point around 2014, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Khush ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 58.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Khush".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Khush. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Khush is pronounced as koosh, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kuesh, at 16.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K UH1 SH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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