girls:
24 births since 1999
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
145 births since 1983
#4441 (3rd percentile)
overall:
169 births since 1983
#7570 (2nd percentile)
The name Uchechukwu is the #7,570 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 169 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,441 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 145 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1999.
Uchechukwu first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Uchechukwu is available in 23 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (20 years for boys and 4 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 Uchechukwu has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Uchechukwu were boys.
For boys, Uchechukwu reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #896) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Uchechukwu ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 77.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Uchechukwu reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #885) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Uchechukwu".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Uchechukwu. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Uchechukwu is pronounced as ue-cheh-CHUEK-wue, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ue-chay-CHUEK-wue, at 10.0% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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