girls:
29 births since 2021
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
28 births since 2018
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
57 births since 2018
#7682 (1st percentile)
The name Swae is the #7,682 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57 recorded births since 2018. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 2021. For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2018.
Swae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2018 (2018 for boys and 2021 for girls). Birth data for Swae is available in 5 out of the 6 years between 2018 and 2023 (4 years for boys and 3 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 Swae is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 66.7% of babies named Swae were girls.
For girls, Swae reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #940) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Swae is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #940 (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million.
For boys, Swae reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #918) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for boys has remained relatively stable. Currently, Swae ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 55.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Swae".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Swae is pronounced as sway, which has 1 syllables.
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