Bama

girls:

498 births since 1880

#5218 (9th percentile)

overall:

498 births since 1880

#7241 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 1982 18801982

Key Statistics

Total Births
498
Peak Births
14
Peak Year
1894
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
2.8%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#212
Current Rank
#793
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Bama

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Bama. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 70.7% confident that Bama is pronounced as BA-muh. The next most likely pronunciation is BAH-muh, at 17.1% confidence.

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70.7%
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BA-muh (2 syllables)
70.7% confidence
B AE1 M AH0
BAH-muh (2 syllables)
17.1% confidence
B AA1 M AH0
BUH-muh (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
B AH1 M AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

BAH-nuh (2 syllables)
4 names 1.3k births
B AA1 N AH0
BER-muh (2 syllables)
3 names 1.2k births
B ER1 M AH0

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 AE1 M 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.