Alton

girls:

376 births since 1904

#5340 (7th percentile)

boys:

47.2k births since 1880

#520 (89th percentile)

overall:

47.6k births since 1880

#1112 (86th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
376
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1904
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#348
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
47,237
Peak Births
836
Peak Year
1928
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
68.8%
Current Percentile
10.5%
Peak Rank
#78
Current Rank
#815
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Alton

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Alton. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 76.9% confident that Alton is pronounced as AWL-tuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is AHL-tuhn, at 23.1% confidence.

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76.9%
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AWL-tuhn (2 syllables)
Verified
76.9% confidence
AO1 L T AH0 N
AHL-tuhn (2 syllables)
23.1% confidence
AA1 L T AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Alton. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Alton, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AWL-duhn (2 syllables)
4 names 20k births
AO1 L D AH0 N
AWL-dihn (2 syllables)
3 names 1.8k births
AO1 L D IH0 N

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 AO1 L T AH0 N) 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.