girls:
10 births since 2010
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
314 births since 1980
#4272 (7th percentile)
overall:
324 births since 1980
#7415 (4th percentile)
The name Naoki is the #7,415 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 324 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 4.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,272 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 314 births since 1980. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2010.
Naoki first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (1980 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Naoki is available in 37 out of the 44 years between 1980 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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 Naoki has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Naoki reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #890) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Naoki ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 31.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Naoki reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Naoki".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Naoki. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Naoki is pronounced as nah-OH-kee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NOW-kee, at 18.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AA0 OW1 K IY0) 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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