Ben

girls:

467 births since 1889

#5249 (8th percentile)

boys:

84.7k births since 1880

#341 (93rd percentile)

overall:

85.2k births since 1880

#756 (90th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
467
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1917
First Recorded
1889
Peak Percentile
2.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#283
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
84,729
Peak Births
1,276
Peak Year
1889
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
79.7%
Current Percentile
32.4%
Peak Rank
#42
Current Rank
#616
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ben

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Ben. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Ben is pronounced as behn.

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behn (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
B EH1 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

bayn (1 syllable)
4 names 2.1k births
B EY1 N
bai-AHN (2 syllables)
1 name 1.1k births
B AY0 AA1 N

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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 EH1 N) 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.