girls:
135 births since 1996
#5581 (2nd percentile)
overall:
135 births since 1996
#7604 (2nd percentile)
The name Monifah is the #7,604 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 135 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,581 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 135 births since 1996.
Monifah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996). Birth data for Monifah is available in 6 out of the 6 years between 1996 and 2001. 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.
For girls, Monifah reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #803) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.5% 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 "Monifah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Monifah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Monifah is pronounced as moh-NEE-fuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-NEE-fuh, at 30.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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