girls:
30 births since 1996
#5686 (0th percentile)
boys:
19 births since 2000
#4567 (0th percentile)
overall:
49 births since 1996
#7690 (1st percentile)
The name Opeyemi is the #7,690 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 49 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,686 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1996. For boys, it ranks #4,567 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2000.
Opeyemi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for girls and 2000 for boys). Birth data for Opeyemi is available in 7 out of the 15 years between 1996 and 2010 (5 years for girls and 3 years for boys). 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.
The name Opeyemi has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (61.2% of all recorded births). In 2010, 100.0% of babies named Opeyemi were girls.
For girls, Opeyemi reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #905) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
For boys, Opeyemi reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #822) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2003.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Opeyemi".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Opeyemi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.0% confident that Opeyemi is pronounced as oh-pay-YEH-mee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oh-PAY-yeh-mee, at 36.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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