boys:
1.5k births since 1963
#3163 (31st percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1963
#6256 (19th percentile)
The name Vijay is the #6,256 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,489 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 19.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,163 (31.0% percentile) for all time with 1,489 births since 1963.
Vijay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (first recorded for boys in 1963). Birth data for Vijay is available in 59 out of the 61 years between 1963 and 2023. 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 boys, Vijay reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #649) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 25 births per million (ranked 6.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Vijay ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 15.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vijay".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Vijay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Vijay is pronounced as vih-JAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VEE-jay, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like V IH0 JH EY1) 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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