girls:
5 births since 1931
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
17.3k births since 1880
#872 (81st percentile)
overall:
17.3k births since 1880
#1963 (75th percentile)
The name Ned is the #1,963 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 17,277 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 74.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 74.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #872 (81.0% percentile) for all time with 17,272 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1931.
Ned has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1931 for girls).
The name Ned has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 100.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ned reached its peak popularity in 1939, achieving the 45.5% percentile (ranked #285) with 281 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 409 births per million (ranked 21.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Ned ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 2.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ned reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #584) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1931.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ned".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ned. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Ned is pronounced as nehd, which has 1 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N EH1 D) 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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