girls:
6 births since 2005
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
110 births since 2001
#4476 (2nd percentile)
overall:
116 births since 2001
#7623 (1st percentile)
The name Ukiah is the #7,623 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 116 recorded births since 2001. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,476 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 110 births since 2001. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2005.
Ukiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2001 (2001 for boys and 2005 for girls). Birth data for Ukiah is available in 14 out of the 22 years between 2001 and 2022 (14 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 Ukiah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ukiah reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #816) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Ukiah reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #938) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ukiah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ukiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.7% confident that Ukiah is pronounced as yue-KAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yue-KEE-uh, at 14.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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