girls:
13 births since 1971
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
126 births since 1950
#4460 (3rd percentile)
overall:
139 births since 1950
#7600 (2nd percentile)
The name Skeeter is the #7,600 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 139 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,460 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 126 births since 1950. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 1971.
Skeeter first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (1950 for boys and 1971 for girls). Birth data for Skeeter is available in 19 out of the 44 years between 1950 and 1993 (19 years for boys and 2 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 Skeeter has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Skeeter reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #670) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
For girls, Skeeter reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #751) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Skeeter".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Skeeter is pronounced as SKEE-ter, which has 2 syllables.
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