girls:
129 births since 1987
#5587 (2nd percentile)
boys:
21 births since 2010
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
150 births since 1987
#7589 (2nd percentile)
The name Misbah is the #7,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 150 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,587 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 129 births since 1987. For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 2010.
Misbah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for girls and 2010 for boys). Birth data for Misbah is available in 18 out of the 36 years between 1987 and 2022 (17 years for girls and 3 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 Misbah has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 40.0% of babies named Misbah were girls.
For girls, Misbah reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #878) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Misbah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #920) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% 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 "Misbah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Misbah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.4% confident that Misbah is pronounced as MIH-sbah, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIH-sbuh, at 36.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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