Aengus

boys:

194 births since 1996

#4392 (4th percentile)

overall:

194 births since 1996

#7545 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Aengus is the #7,545 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 194 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,392 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 194 births since 1996.

Aengus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for boys in 1996). Birth data for Aengus is available in 21 out of the 28 years between 1996 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, Aengus reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #889) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aengus ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 44.8% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aengus".

1996 2023 19962023

Key Statistics

Total Births
194
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
2014
First Recorded
1996
Peak Percentile
1.7%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#889
Current Rank
#908
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Aengus

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Aengus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 32.5% confident that Aengus is pronounced as ANGG-uhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AYNGG-uhs, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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32.5%
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ANGG-uhs (2 syllables)
32.5% confidence
AE1 N G G AH0 S
AYNGG-uhs (2 syllables)
25.0% confidence
EY1 N G G AH0 S
AN-guhs (2 syllables)
22.5% confidence
AE1 N G AH0 S
EHNGG-uhs (2 syllables)
20.0% confidence
EH1 N G G AH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 N G G AH0 S) 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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