girls:
10 births since 1994
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
615 births since 1975
#3971 (13th percentile)
overall:
625 births since 1975
#7114 (8th percentile)
The name Koran is the #7,114 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 625 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 8.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,971 (13.4% percentile) for all time with 615 births since 1975. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1994.
Koran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (1975 for boys and 1994 for girls). Birth data for Koran is available in 47 out of the 49 years between 1975 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 2 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 Koran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Koran reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #779) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Koran ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 21.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Koran reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #845) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Koran".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Koren. View all variations of Koren.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Koran", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 13 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Koren" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Koren..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Koran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 29.8% confident that Koran is pronounced as KAW-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kaw-RAHN, at 21.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like K AO1 R AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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