girls:
1.5k births since 1969
#4223 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1969
#6222 (20th percentile)
The name Niamh is the #6,222 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,523 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 19.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,223 (26.1% percentile) for all time with 1,523 births since 1969.
Niamh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969). Birth data for Niamh is available in 38 out of the 55 years between 1969 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 girls, Niamh reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #834) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 36 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Niamh ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 53.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Niamh".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Niamh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.4% confident that Niamh is pronounced as neev, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAI-uhm, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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