girls:
19 births since 2013
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
63 births since 2010
#4523 (1st percentile)
overall:
82 births since 2010
#7657 (1st percentile)
The name Pistol is the #7,657 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 82 recorded births since 2010. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,523 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 2010. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2013.
Pistol first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2010 (2010 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Pistol is available in 7 out of the 8 years between 2010 and 2017 (7 years for boys and 3 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 Pistol has been given predominantly to boys, with 76.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Pistol were boys.
For boys, Pistol reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #891) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Pistol reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #927) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2013, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pistol".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Pistol is pronounced as PIH-stuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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