boys:
329 births since 1919
#4257 (7th percentile)
overall:
329 births since 1919
#7410 (4th percentile)
The name Zeferino is the #7,410 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 329 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 4.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,257 (7.1% percentile) for all time with 329 births since 1919.
Zeferino first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (first recorded for boys in 1919). Birth data for Zeferino is available in 47 out of the 105 years between 1919 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, Zeferino reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #874) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1936, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Zeferino ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 43.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Zeferino".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Zeferino. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Zeferino is pronounced as zeh-fer-EE-noh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is zeh-FER-ee-noh, at 21.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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