Nkiruka

girls:

27 births since 1982

#5689 (0th percentile)

overall:

27 births since 1982

#7712 (0th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Nkiruka is the #7,712 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 27 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 0.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,689 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 27 births since 1982.

Nkiruka first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (first recorded for girls in 1982). Birth data for Nkiruka is available in 5 out of the 26 years between 1982 and 2007. 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, Nkiruka reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #792) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nkiruka".

1982 2007 19822007

Key Statistics

Total Births
27
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1982
First Recorded
1982
Peak Percentile
0.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#792
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Nkiruka

Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Nkiruka. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 17.1% confident that Nkiruka is pronounced as nkee-RUE-kuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ihn-kih-RUE-kuh, at 17.1% confidence, with 4 syllables.

nkee-RUE-kuh (3 syllables)
17.1% confidence
N K IY0 R UW1 K AH0
ihn-kih-RUE-kuh (4 syllables)
17.1% confidence
IH0 N K IH0 R UW1 K AH0
uhn-kih-RUE-kuh (4 syllables)
11.4% confidence
AH0 N K IH0 R UW1 K AH0
NKIH-rue-kuh (3 syllables)
11.4% confidence
N K IH1 R UW0 K AH0
nkih-RUE-kuh (3 syllables)
11.4% confidence
N K IH0 R UW1 K AH0
NKEE-rue-kuh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
N K IY1 R UW0 K AH0
ehn-kih-RUE-kuh (4 syllables)
5.7% confidence
EH0 N K IH0 R UW1 K AH0
ngkih-RUEK-kuh (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
N G K IH0 R UW1 K AH0
NGKEAR-rue-kuh (3 syllables)
2.9% confidence
N G K IY1 R UW0 K AH0
ihn-kee-RUE-kuh (4 syllables)
2.9% confidence
IH0 N K IY0 R UW1 K AH0
NKEE-RUE-kuh (3 syllables)
2.9% confidence
N K IY1 R UW1 K AH0
nkih-ROO-kuh (3 syllables)
2.9% confidence
N K IH0 R UH1 K AH0
NGKIHR-rue-kuh (3 syllables)
2.9% confidence
N G K IH1 R UW0 K AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like N K IY0 R UW1 K 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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