girls:
2.3k births since 1953
#3617 (37th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1953
#5525 (29th percentile)
The name Yocheved is the #5,525 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,277 recorded births since 1953. This represents the 28.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,617 (36.7% percentile) for all time with 2,277 births since 1953.
Yocheved first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1953 (first recorded for girls in 1953). Birth data for Yocheved is available in 61 out of the 71 years between 1953 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 girls, Yocheved reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #853) with 46 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 46 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Yocheved ranks #886 for girls (6.4% percentile) with 38 births per million, which is 82.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yocheved".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Yocheved. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.7% confident that Yocheved is pronounced as yoh-KEH-vehd, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is YOH-keh-vehd, at 32.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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