girls:
7 births since 1985
#5709 (0th percentile)
boys:
277 births since 1977
#4309 (6th percentile)
overall:
284 births since 1977
#7455 (4th percentile)
The name Phuc is the #7,455 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 284 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 3.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,309 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,709 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1985.
Phuc first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (1977 for boys and 1985 for girls). Birth data for Phuc is available in 26 out of the 44 years between 1977 and 2020 (26 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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 Phuc has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Phuc reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #675) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Phuc reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #798) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Phuc".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Phuc. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Phuc is pronounced as fook, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fuek, at 35.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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