girls:
116 births since 1971
#5600 (2nd percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1975
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
122 births since 1971
#7617 (2nd percentile)
The name Kinshasa is the #7,617 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 122 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,600 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 116 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1975.
Kinshasa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Kinshasa is available in 11 out of the 27 years between 1971 and 1997 (11 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Kinshasa has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.1% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Kinshasa reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #754) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
For boys, Kinshasa reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #659) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kinshasa".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Kinshasa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.1% confident that Kinshasa is pronounced as kihn-SHAH-suh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kihn-SHA-suh, at 15.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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