girls:
36 births since 1983
#5680 (1st percentile)
boys:
186 births since 1993
#4400 (4th percentile)
overall:
222 births since 1983
#7517 (3rd percentile)
The name Nekoda is the #7,517 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 222 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,400 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,680 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 36 births since 1983.
Nekoda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for girls and 1993 for boys). Birth data for Nekoda is available in 22 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (21 years for boys and 7 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 Nekoda has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Nekoda were boys. Interestingly, until around 1993, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1983 to 1992), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (85.7% boys from 1993 to 2023).
For boys, Nekoda reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #893) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nekoda ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 76.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nekoda reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #956) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nekoda".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nekoda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.9% confident that Nekoda is pronounced as neh-KOH-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuh-KOH-duh, at 32.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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