Beyonce

girls:

2k births since 1998

#3846 (33rd percentile)

overall:

2k births since 1998

#5800 (25th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Beyonce is the #5,800 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,970 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 25.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,846 (32.7% percentile) for all time with 1,970 births since 1998.

Beyonce first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998). Birth data for Beyonce is available in 23 out of the 25 years between 1998 and 2022. 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, Beyonce reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 36.5% percentile (ranked #571) with 178 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 178 births per million (ranked 36.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.

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

1998 2022 19982022

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,970
Peak Births
353
Peak Year
2001
First Recorded
1998
Peak Percentile
36.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#571
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Beyonce

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Beyonce. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 45.7% confident that Beyonce is pronounced as bee-AHN-say, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is bee-AHNS, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.

bee-AHN-say (3 syllables)
45.7% confidence
B IY0 AA1 N S EY0
bee-AHNS (2 syllables)
20.0% confidence
B IY0 AA1 N S
bih-yawn-SAY (3 syllables)
Verified
17.1% confidence
B IH0 Y AO2 N S EY1
bee-AWN-see (3 syllables)
11.4% confidence
B IY0 AO1 N S IY0
bee-AWN-say (3 syllables)
5.7% confidence
B IY0 AO1 N S EY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 IY0 AA1 N S EY0) 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.

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