boys:
6.6k births since 1880
#1444 (69th percentile)
overall:
6.6k births since 1880
#3313 (57th percentile)
The name Angus is the #3,313 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,622 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 57.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 57.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,444 (68.5% percentile) for all time with 6,622 births since 1880.
Angus has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Angus reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 15.1% percentile (ranked #468) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 197 births per million (ranked 9.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Angus ranks #839 for boys (7.9% percentile) with 42 births per million, which is 21.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Angus".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Angus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Angus is pronounced as ANGG-uhs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AN-guhs, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 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 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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