girls:
69 births since 1914
#5647 (1st percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1917
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
95 births since 1914
#7644 (1st percentile)
The name Argusta is the #7,644 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 95 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,647 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1917.
Argusta first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for girls and 1917 for boys). Birth data for Argusta is available in 15 out of the 25 years between 1914 and 1938 (10 years for girls and 5 years for boys). 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 Argusta has been given predominantly to girls, with 72.6% of all recorded births being female. In 1938, 0.0% of babies named Argusta were girls.
For girls, Argusta reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #587) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1934.
For boys, Argusta reached its peak popularity in 1931, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #519) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1931, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Argusta".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Argusta. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.4% confident that Argusta is pronounced as ahr-GUH-stuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-guh-stuh, at 22.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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