girls:
5 births since 2021
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
306 births since 1900
#4280 (7th percentile)
overall:
311 births since 1900
#7428 (4th percentile)
The name Sims is the #7,428 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 311 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 4.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,280 (6.6% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1900. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2021.
Sims first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Sims is available in 45 out of the 122 years between 1900 and 2021 (44 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 Sims has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 0.0% of babies named Sims were boys.
For boys, Sims reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 2.4% percentile (ranked #522) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 37 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Sims reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sims".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Sims is pronounced as sihmz, which has 1 syllables.
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