girls:
10 births since 1920
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1905
#3577 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1905
#6713 (13th percentile)
The name Beauford is the #6,713 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,026 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 13.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,577 (22.0% percentile) for all time with 1,016 births since 1905. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1920.
Beauford first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (1905 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Beauford is available in 64 out of the 116 years between 1905 and 2020 (64 years for boys and 2 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 Beauford has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Beauford reached its peak popularity in 1934, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #499) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 35 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Beauford reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #608) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1921.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beauford".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Beauford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.1% confident that Beauford is pronounced as BOH-ferd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is boh-FORD, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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