boys:
146 births since 1975
#4440 (3rd percentile)
overall:
146 births since 1975
#7593 (2nd percentile)
The name Santosh is the #7,593 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 146 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,440 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 146 births since 1975.
Santosh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for boys in 1975). Birth data for Santosh is available in 22 out of the 36 years between 1975 and 2010. 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.
For boys, Santosh reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #895) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Santosh".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Santosh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.9% confident that Santosh is pronounced as suhn-TOHSH, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sahn-TOHSH, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AH0 N T OW1 SH) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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