girls:
113 births since 2009
#5603 (2nd percentile)
overall:
113 births since 2009
#7626 (1st percentile)
The name Naw is the #7,626 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 113 recorded births since 2009. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,603 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 113 births since 2009.
Naw first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2009 (first recorded for girls in 2009). Birth data for Naw is available in 12 out of the 15 years between 2009 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Naw reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #937) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Naw ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 44.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Naw".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Naw. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Naw is pronounced as naw, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nah, at 17.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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