girls:
24 births since 1921
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
118 births since 1912
#4468 (3rd percentile)
overall:
142 births since 1912
#7597 (2nd percentile)
The name Argyle is the #7,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 142 recorded births since 1912. This represents the 1.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,468 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 118 births since 1912. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1921.
Argyle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1912 (1912 for boys and 1921 for girls). Birth data for Argyle is available in 20 out of the 39 years between 1912 and 1950 (19 years for boys and 3 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 Argyle has been given predominantly to boys, with 83.1% of all recorded births being male. In 1950, 100.0% of babies named Argyle were boys.
For boys, Argyle reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #539) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1950.
For girls, Argyle reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #588) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Argyle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Argyle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.1% confident that Argyle is pronounced as AHR-gail, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHR-GAIL, at 37.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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