girls:
3.7k births since 1936
#2846 (50th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1981
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1936
#4513 (42nd percentile)
The name Nereida is the #4,513 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,693 recorded births since 1936. This represents the 41.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,846 (50.2% percentile) for all time with 3,687 births since 1936. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1981.
Nereida first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1936 (1936 for girls and 1981 for boys). Birth data for Nereida is available in 80 out of the 88 years between 1936 and 2023 (80 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Nereida has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nereida reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 18.6% percentile (ranked #633) with 83 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 83 births per million (ranked 18.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nereida ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 8.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nereida reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #681) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1981.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nereida".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Nereida. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.6% confident that Nereida is pronounced as neh-RAY-ih-duh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is neh-RAY-duh, at 22.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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