boys:
256 births since 1969
#4330 (6th percentile)
overall:
256 births since 1969
#7483 (3rd percentile)
The name Kino is the #7,483 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 256 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,330 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1969.
Kino first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for boys in 1969). Birth data for Kino is available in 37 out of the 55 years between 1969 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, Kino reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #653) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kino ranks #904 for boys (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 88.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kino".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Kino. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Kino is pronounced as KEE-noh, which has 2 syllables.
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