girls:
36.2k births since 1966
#720 (87th percentile)
boys:
13 births since 2014
#4573 (0th percentile)
overall:
36.2k births since 1966
#1309 (83rd percentile)
The name Ximena is the #1,309 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36,221 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 83.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #720 (87.4% percentile) for all time with 36,208 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,573 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2014.
Ximena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 2014 for boys). Birth data for Ximena is available in 52 out of the 58 years between 1966 and 2023 (52 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 Ximena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ximena reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 88.0% percentile (ranked #116) with 1,384 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 1,384 births per million (ranked 88.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ximena ranks #154 for girls (83.8% percentile) with 1,034 births per million, which is 74.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ximena reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #902) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ximena".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Ximena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.9% confident that Ximena is pronounced as hee-MEH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zih-MEH-nuh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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