girls:
6 births since 2021
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
41 births since 2006
#4545 (1st percentile)
overall:
47 births since 2006
#7692 (1st percentile)
The name Knoa is the #7,692 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 47 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,545 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 2006. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2021.
Knoa first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 (2006 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Knoa is available in 5 out of the 18 years between 2006 and 2023 (5 years for boys and 1 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 Knoa has been given predominantly to boys, with 87.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Knoa were boys.
For boys, Knoa reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #905) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Knoa is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #905 (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million.
For girls, Knoa reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #935) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Knoa".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Knoa. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Knoa is pronounced as NOH-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KNOH-uh, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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