boys:
73 births since 2015
#4513 (2nd percentile)
overall:
73 births since 2015
#7666 (1st percentile)
The name Beorn is the #7,666 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73 recorded births since 2015. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,513 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 73 births since 2015.
Beorn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2015 (first recorded for boys in 2015).
For boys, Beorn reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #906) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Beorn is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #906 (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Beorn".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Beorn. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.9% confident that Beorn is pronounced as BEH-orn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bern, at 21.9% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like B EH1 AO0 R 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.
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