girls:
10 births since 2022
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 2021
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
17 births since 2021
#7722 (0th percentile)
The name Mu is the #7,722 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17 recorded births since 2021. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2022. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 2021.
Mu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2021 (2021 for boys and 2022 for girls).
The name Mu has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (58.8% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mu were girls.
For girls, Mu reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #947) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Mu is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #947 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
For boys, Mu reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mu".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mu is pronounced as mue, which has 1 syllables.
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