girls:
4k births since 1975
#2736 (52nd percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1975
#4351 (44th percentile)
The name Mahogany is the #4,351 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,989 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 43.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,736 (52.1% percentile) for all time with 3,989 births since 1975.
Mahogany first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975).
For girls, Mahogany reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 17.7% percentile (ranked #738) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 82 births per million (ranked 17.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mahogany ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 47.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mahogany".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mahogany. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.9% confident that Mahogany is pronounced as muh-HAH-guh-nee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-HAW-guh-nee, at 21.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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