girls:
1.1k births since 1971
#4631 (19th percentile)
boys:
239 births since 1975
#4347 (5th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1971
#6419 (17th percentile)
The name My is the #6,419 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,324 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 17.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,631 (19.0% percentile) for all time with 1,085 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,347 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 239 births since 1975.
My first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for My is available in 49 out of the 52 years between 1971 and 2022 (49 years for girls and 21 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 My has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named My were girls.
For girls, My reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #707) with 50 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 50 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, My reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #664) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "My".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name My. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that My is pronounced as mai, which has 1 syllables.
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