Baby

girls:

6k births since 1912

#2135 (63rd percentile)

boys:

6.3k births since 1919

#1488 (68th percentile)

overall:

12.3k births since 1912

#2372 (69th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Baby".

1912 2023 19122023

Key Statistics

Total Births
6,046
Peak Births
308
Peak Year
1995
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
34.3%
Current Percentile
1.0%
Peak Rank
#465
Current Rank
#938
Female statistics
Total Births
6,295
Peak Births
373
Peak Year
1994
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
39.2%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#472
Current Rank
#900
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Baby

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Baby. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Baby is pronounced as BAY-bee.

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100.0%
BAY-bee (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
B EY1 B IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Baby. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Baby, please vote using the thumbs up button.

BAH-bee (2 syllables)
7 names 459.5k births
B AA1 B IY0
BEE-bee (2 syllables)
4 names 2.3k births
B IY1 B IY0

About Pronunciation Data

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 B EY1 B 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.

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.