girls:
42 births since 1908
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
43 births since 1914
#4543 (1st percentile)
overall:
85 births since 1908
#7654 (1st percentile)
The name Nebraska is the #7,654 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 85 recorded births since 1908. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,543 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1908.
Nebraska first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1908 (1908 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Nebraska is available in 16 out of the 116 years between 1908 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.
The name Nebraska is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Nebraska were girls.
For boys, Nebraska reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #524) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1954.
For girls, Nebraska reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #607) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 14 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nebraska ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 20.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nebraska".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nebraska. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Nebraska is pronounced as nuh-BRA-skuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEH-BRA-skuh, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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