girls:
13.3k births since 1880
#1347 (76th percentile)
boys:
16 births since 1915
#4570 (0th percentile)
overall:
13.3k births since 1880
#2274 (71st percentile)
The name America is the #2,274 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,309 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,347 (76.4% percentile) for all time with 13,293 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,570 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1915.
America has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name America has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, America reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 58.3% percentile (ranked #392) with 354 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 357 births per million (ranked 58.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, America ranks #855 for girls (9.7% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 15.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, America reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1932.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "America".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of America.
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name America. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.4% confident that America is pronounced as uh-MEH-rih-kuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-MEH-ree-kuh, at 19.6% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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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 AH0 M EH1 R IH0 K 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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