boys:
12 births since 1990
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
12 births since 1990
#7727 (0th percentile)
The name Olajuwan is the #7,727 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 0.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1990.
Olajuwan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Olajuwan is available in 2 out of the 6 years between 1990 and 1995. 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, Olajuwan reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #798) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Olajuwan".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Olajuwan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.0% confident that Olajuwan is pronounced as oh-LAH-jue-ahn, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-luh-JUE-wuhn, at 19.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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