girls:
11 births since 1974
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
228 births since 2000
#4358 (5th percentile)
overall:
239 births since 1974
#7500 (3rd percentile)
The name Kweli is the #7,500 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 239 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,358 (4.9% percentile) for all time with 228 births since 2000. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1974.
Kweli first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for girls and 2000 for boys). Birth data for Kweli is available in 22 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (20 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 Kweli has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.4% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 2000, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1974 to 1999), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2000 to 2023).
For boys, Kweli reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #796) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 16 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Kweli ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 16.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Kweli reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #745) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kweli".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Kweli. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 92.1% confident that Kweli is pronounced as KWEH-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KWAY-lee, at 7.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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