girls:
2.4k births since 1974
#3524 (38th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1974
#5411 (30th percentile)
The name Passion is the #5,411 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,413 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 30.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,524 (38.3% percentile) for all time with 2,413 births since 1974.
Passion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (first recorded for girls in 1974).
For girls, Passion reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 9.3% percentile (ranked #779) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 42 births per million (ranked 9.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Passion ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 44.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Passion".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Passion is pronounced as PA-shuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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