girls:
6 births since 2022
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
777 births since 1996
#3810 (17th percentile)
overall:
783 births since 1996
#6956 (10th percentile)
The name Bauer is the #6,956 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 783 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 10.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,810 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 777 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2022.
Bauer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 2022 for girls). Birth data for Bauer is available in 27 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023 (27 years for boys and 1 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 Bauer has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Bauer reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #860) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Bauer ranks #870 for boys (4.5% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 77.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Bauer reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Bauer".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Bauer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.7% confident that Bauer is pronounced as BOW-er, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bour, at 9.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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