boys:
716 births since 1918
#3871 (16th percentile)
overall:
716 births since 1918
#7023 (9th percentile)
The name Nephi is the #7,023 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 716 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 9.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,871 (15.5% percentile) for all time with 716 births since 1918.
Nephi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (first recorded for boys in 1918). Birth data for Nephi is available in 65 out of the 106 years between 1918 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 boys, Nephi reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.5% percentile (ranked #738) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). Despite a low point around 2019, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Nephi ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 37.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nephi".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nephi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.1% confident that Nephi is pronounced as NEE-fai, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEE-fee, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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