girls:
9.2k births since 1880
#1678 (71st percentile)
overall:
9.2k births since 1880
#2799 (64th percentile)
The name Agatha is the #2,799 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,239 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 63.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 63.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,678 (70.6% percentile) for all time with 9,239 births since 1880.
Agatha has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Agatha reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 34.4% percentile (ranked #376) with 196 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 234 births per million (ranked 16.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1998, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Agatha ranks #830 for girls (12.4% percentile) with 70 births per million, which is 29.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Agatha".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Agatha. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.2% confident that Agatha is pronounced as A-guh-thuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-GUH-thuh, at 13.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 G AH0 TH AH0) 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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