girls:
61 births since 2002
#5655 (1st percentile)
boys:
23 births since 2002
#4563 (0th percentile)
overall:
84 births since 2002
#7655 (1st percentile)
The name Peja is the #7,655 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 84 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,655 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 61 births since 2002. For boys, it ranks #4,563 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 2002.
Peja first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 . Birth data for Peja is available in 9 out of the 9 years between 2002 and 2010 (8 years for girls and 4 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 Peja has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2010, 100.0% of babies named Peja were girls.
For girls, Peja reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #884) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
For boys, Peja 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 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Peja".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Peja. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Peja is pronounced as PAY-juh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PEH-juh, at 12.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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