girls:
1.1k births since 1976
#4661 (18th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1976
#6684 (14th percentile)
The name Nadiyah is the #6,684 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,055 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 13.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,661 (18.4% percentile) for all time with 1,055 births since 1976.
Nadiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976).
For girls, Nadiyah reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #859) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nadiyah ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 31.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nadiyah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Nadiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.2% confident that Nadiyah is pronounced as NAH-dee-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuh-DEE-uh, at 28.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AA1 D IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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