girls:
2.3k births since 1882
#3621 (37th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1882
#5529 (29th percentile)
The name Beaulah is the #5,529 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,273 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 28.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,621 (36.6% percentile) for all time with 2,273 births since 1882.
Beaulah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for girls in 1882). Birth data for Beaulah is available in 79 out of the 92 years between 1882 and 1973. 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.
For girls, Beaulah reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 12.6% percentile (ranked #529) with 63 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 113 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1973.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beaulah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Beaulah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.6% confident that Beaulah is pronounced as BYUE-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEE-luh, at 16.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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