girls:
325 births since 1922
#5391 (6th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2022
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
331 births since 1922
#7408 (4th percentile)
The name Miami is the #7,408 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 331 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,391 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2022.
Miami first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Miami is available in 29 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (29 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Miami has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Miami reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #921) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Miami ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 61.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Miami reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #923) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Miami".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Miami. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.8% confident that Miami is pronounced as mai-A-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-AH-mee, at 14.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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