girls:
26 births since 2003
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
128 births since 1998
#4458 (3rd percentile)
overall:
154 births since 1998
#7585 (2nd percentile)
The name Somtochukwu is the #7,585 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 154 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,458 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 128 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 2003.
Somtochukwu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2003 for girls). Birth data for Somtochukwu is available in 18 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (17 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 Somtochukwu has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Somtochukwu were boys.
For boys, Somtochukwu reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #892) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Somtochukwu ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 41.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Somtochukwu reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #956) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Somtochukwu".
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Our model has identified 22 different pronunciations for the name Somtochukwu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.1% confident that Somtochukwu is pronounced as sohm-toh-CHUEK-wue, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sawm-toh-CHUEK-wue, at 11.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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