girls:
29 births since 1981
#5687 (0th percentile)
boys:
110 births since 1983
#4476 (2nd percentile)
overall:
139 births since 1981
#7600 (2nd percentile)
The name Xue is the #7,600 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 139 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,476 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 110 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,687 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 29 births since 1981.
Xue first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (1981 for girls and 1983 for boys). Birth data for Xue is available in 17 out of the 20 years between 1981 and 2000 (15 years for boys and 5 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 Xue has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2000, 0.0% of babies named Xue were boys. Interestingly, until around 1984, the name was more popular for girls (58.3% girls from 1981 to 1983), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (82.7% boys from 1984 to 2000).
For boys, Xue reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #748) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1998.
For girls, Xue reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Xue".
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Our model has identified 13 different pronunciations for the name Xue. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.0% confident that Xue is pronounced as shue-EH, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zue, at 15.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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