girls:
361 births since 1895
#5355 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1880
#3126 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1880
#5870 (24th percentile)
The name Algie is the #5,870 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,890 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 24.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,126 (31.8% percentile) for all time with 1,529 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,355 (6.3% percentile) for all time with 361 births since 1895.
Algie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1895 for girls). Birth data for Algie is available in 101 out of the 112 years between 1880 and 1991 (97 years for boys and 45 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 Algie has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.9% of all recorded births being male. In 1991, 100.0% of babies named Algie were boys.
For boys, Algie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #503) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 80 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1991.
For girls, Algie reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #597) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1899, with 36 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Algie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Algie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Algie is pronounced as AL-jee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AWL-gee, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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