girls:
68 births since 2002
#5648 (1st percentile)
boys:
379 births since 1997
#4207 (8th percentile)
overall:
447 births since 1997
#7292 (6th percentile)
The name Nation is the #7,292 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 447 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 5.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,207 (8.2% percentile) for all time with 379 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,648 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 68 births since 2002.
Nation first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2002 for girls). Birth data for Nation is available in 25 out of the 27 years between 1997 and 2023 (24 years for boys and 9 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 Nation has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Nation were boys.
For boys, Nation reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #864) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 23 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nation ranks #892 for boys (2.1% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 57.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nation reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #951) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nation".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nation is pronounced as NAY-shuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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