girls:
63 births since 1976
#5653 (1st percentile)
boys:
147 births since 1972
#4439 (3rd percentile)
overall:
210 births since 1972
#7529 (3rd percentile)
The name Taiwo is the #7,529 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 210 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 2.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,439 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 147 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,653 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 63 births since 1976.
Taiwo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Taiwo is available in 28 out of the 48 years between 1972 and 2019 (22 years for boys and 11 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 Taiwo has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (70.0% of all recorded births). In 2019, 0.0% of babies named Taiwo were boys.
For boys, Taiwo reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #765) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Taiwo reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taiwo".
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