boys:
331 births since 1970
#4255 (7th percentile)
overall:
331 births since 1970
#7408 (4th percentile)
The name Niraj is the #7,408 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 331 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,255 (7.2% percentile) for all time with 331 births since 1970.
Niraj first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (first recorded for boys in 1970). Birth data for Niraj is available in 37 out of the 50 years between 1970 and 2019. 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, Niraj reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #748) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Niraj".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Niraj. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.9% confident that Niraj is pronounced as nih-RAHJ, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NIH-ruhj, at 30.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N IH0 R AA1 JH) 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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