girls:
95 births since 1916
#5621 (2nd percentile)
overall:
95 births since 1916
#7644 (1st percentile)
The name Kikuye is the #7,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,621 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 95 births since 1916.
Kikuye first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (first recorded for girls in 1916). Birth data for Kikuye is available in 12 out of the 16 years between 1916 and 1931. 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 girls, Kikuye reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #589) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1931.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kikuye".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Kikuye. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.9% confident that Kikuye is pronounced as kih-KUE-yeh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kee-KUE-yeh, at 14.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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