girls:
4.5k births since 1960
#2529 (56th percentile)
overall:
4.5k births since 1960
#4062 (48th percentile)
The name Ariadne is the #4,062 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,524 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 47.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 47.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,529 (55.8% percentile) for all time with 4,524 births since 1960.
Ariadne first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (first recorded for girls in 1960). Birth data for Ariadne is available in 60 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Ariadne reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 38.5% percentile (ranked #589) with 201 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 201 births per million (ranked 38.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ariadne ranks #739 for girls (22.0% percentile) with 122 births per million, which is 60.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ariadne".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Ariadne. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.7% confident that Ariadne is pronounced as EH-ree-AD-nee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-ree-ADN, at 9.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 R IY0 AE1 D N IY0) 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.
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