girls:
122 births since 1971
#5594 (2nd percentile)
overall:
122 births since 1971
#7617 (2nd percentile)
The name Nkenge is the #7,617 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 122 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,594 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 122 births since 1971.
Nkenge first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Nkenge is available in 13 out of the 28 years between 1971 and 1998. 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, Nkenge reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #749) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nkenge".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Nkenge. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.1% confident that Nkenge is pronounced as ehn-KEHN-gee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NKEHN-gee, at 17.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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