girls:
125 births since 1975
#5591 (2nd percentile)
overall:
125 births since 1975
#7614 (2nd percentile)
The name Teniqua is the #7,614 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 125 recorded births since 1975. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,591 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 125 births since 1975.
Teniqua first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1975 (first recorded for girls in 1975). Birth data for Teniqua is available in 16 out of the 24 years between 1975 and 1998. 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.
For girls, Teniqua reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #842) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Teniqua".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Teniqua. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.3% confident that Teniqua is pronounced as teh-NEEK-wuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TEH-neek-wuh, at 22.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T EH0 N IY1 K W AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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