girls:
5 births since 1976
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
703 births since 1912
#3884 (15th percentile)
overall:
708 births since 1912
#7031 (9th percentile)
The name Takeshi is the #7,031 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 708 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 9.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,884 (15.3% percentile) for all time with 703 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1976.
Takeshi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Takeshi is available in 62 out of the 112 years between 1912 and 2023 (61 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 Takeshi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Takeshi reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #517) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 36 births per million (ranked 6.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Takeshi ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 7.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Takeshi reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #760) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Takeshi".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Takeshi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.4% confident that Takeshi is pronounced as tuh-KEH-shee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is tah-KEH-shee, at 35.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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