girls:
46 births since 1972
#5670 (1st percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1975
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
58 births since 1972
#7681 (1st percentile)
The name Uganda is the #7,681 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 58 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 0.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,670 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 46 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1975.
Uganda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1975 for boys). Birth data for Uganda is available in 7 out of the 8 years between 1972 and 1979 (6 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 Uganda has been given predominantly to girls, with 79.3% of all recorded births being female. In 1979, 100.0% of babies named Uganda were girls.
For girls, Uganda reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #733) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
For boys, Uganda reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #672) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1977.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Uganda".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Uganda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.7% confident that Uganda is pronounced as yue-GAN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yue-GAHN-duh, at 15.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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