girls:
7.4k births since 1972
#1886 (67th percentile)
boys:
857 births since 1976
#3730 (19th percentile)
overall:
8.3k births since 1972
#2964 (62nd percentile)
The name Unique is the #2,964 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,304 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 61.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,886 (67.0% percentile) for all time with 7,447 births since 1972. For boys, it ranks #3,730 (18.6% percentile) for all time with 857 births since 1976.
Unique first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for girls and 1976 for boys). Birth data for Unique is available in 51 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (51 years for girls and 44 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 Unique has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 75.7% of babies named Unique were girls.
For girls, Unique reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 29.8% percentile (ranked #603) with 138 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 144 births per million (ranked 29.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Unique ranks #849 for girls (10.4% percentile) with 59 births per million, which is 40.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Unique reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #780) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 18 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Unique is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #883 (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Unique".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Unique. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Unique is pronounced as yue-NEEK, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YUE-neek, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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