girls:
339 births since 1900
#5377 (6th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1910
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
350 births since 1900
#7389 (4th percentile)
The name Australia is the #7,389 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 350 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 4.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,377 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 339 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1910.
Australia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1910 for boys). Birth data for Australia is available in 47 out of the 121 years between 1900 and 2020 (47 years for girls and 2 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 Australia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Australia reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #570) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 20 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
For boys, Australia reached its peak popularity in 1910, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #279) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 29 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Australia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Australia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Australia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. These names exclude other spelling variations of this name. View all variations of Australia.
Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Australia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Australia is pronounced as aw-STRAYL-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AW-STRAY-lee-uh, at 14.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.
If none of the pronunciations above sound right to you, could you please check whether any of these related pronunciations should be applied to the name Australia? These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Australia. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Australia, please vote using the thumbs up button.
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 AO0 S T R EY1 L Y 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.
© 2025 NamePlay.org
Made with ❤️ by Aaron J Becker