girls:
18 births since 1914
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
62 births since 1916
#4524 (1st percentile)
overall:
80 births since 1914
#7659 (1st percentile)
The name Nesbit is the #7,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,524 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 62 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1914.
Nesbit first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Nesbit is available in 12 out of the 38 years between 1914 and 1951 (10 years for boys and 3 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 Nesbit has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.5% of all recorded births being male. In 1951, 100.0% of babies named Nesbit were boys. Interestingly, until around 1919, the name was more popular for girls (75.0% girls from 1914 to 1918), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 1919 to 1951).
For boys, Nesbit reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #547) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1951.
For girls, Nesbit reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #557) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1916.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nesbit".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nesbit. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.1% confident that Nesbit is pronounced as NEHZ-biht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEH-sbiht, at 41.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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