girls:
2.8k births since 1982
#3277 (43rd percentile)
boys:
133 births since 1988
#4453 (3rd percentile)
overall:
2.9k births since 1982
#5002 (35th percentile)
The name Simran is the #5,002 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,937 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 35.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 35.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,277 (42.7% percentile) for all time with 2,804 births since 1982. For boys, it ranks #4,453 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 133 births since 1988.
Simran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Simran is available in 41 out of the 42 years between 1982 and 2023 (41 years for girls and 16 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 Simran has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 95.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Simran reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 17.1% percentile (ranked #745) with 80 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 80 births per million (ranked 17.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Simran ranks #921 for girls (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 22.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Simran reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #785) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% 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 "Simran".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Simran is pronounced as SIH-mruhn, which has 2 syllables.
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