girls:
34 births since 1993
#5682 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.9k births since 1971
#2864 (38th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1971
#5823 (25th percentile)
The name Quran is the #5,823 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,943 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 24.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,864 (37.5% percentile) for all time with 1,909 births since 1971. For girls, it ranks #5,682 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 34 births since 1993.
Quran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Quran is available in 52 out of the 53 years between 1971 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 5 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 Quran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Quran reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 10.6% percentile (ranked #708) with 45 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 45 births per million (ranked 10.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Quran ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 34.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Quran reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #883) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Quran".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Quran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.7% confident that Quran is pronounced as koo-RAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ker-AHN, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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