girls:
6 births since 1999
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1987
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
20 births since 1987
#7719 (0th percentile)
The name Kolya is the #7,719 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1999.
Kolya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Kolya is available in 3 out of the 16 years between 1987 and 2002 (2 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 Kolya has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (70.0% of all recorded births). In 2002, 100.0% of babies named Kolya were boys.
For boys, Kolya reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #709) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
For girls, Kolya reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kolya".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Kolya is pronounced as KOHL-yuh, which has 2 syllables.
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