girls:
31 births since 1924
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1922
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
36 births since 1922
#7703 (0th percentile)
The name Beebe is the #7,703 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 36 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1924. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1922.
Beebe first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1924 for girls). Birth data for Beebe is available in 7 out of the 41 years between 1922 and 1962 (6 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Beebe has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.1% of all recorded births being female. In 1962, 100.0% of babies named Beebe were girls. Interestingly, until around 1924, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1922 to 1923), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 1924 to 1962).
For girls, Beebe reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #609) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1962.
For boys, Beebe reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #546) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beebe".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Beebe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.8% confident that Beebe is pronounced as beeb, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BEE-bee, at 39.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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