girls:
805 births since 1975
#4911 (14th percentile)
overall:
805 births since 1975
#6934 (10th percentile)
The name Nigeria is the #6,934 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 805 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 10.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,911 (14.1% percentile) for all time with 805 births since 1975.
Nigeria first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975). Birth data for Nigeria is available in 45 out of the 48 years between 1975 and 2022. 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, Nigeria reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 5.9% percentile (ranked #844) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 29 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nigeria".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nigeria. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.5% confident that Nigeria is pronounced as nai-JIH-ree-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nai-JEE-ree-uh, at 28.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AY0 JH IH1 R IY0 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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