British

girls:

288 births since 1969

#5428 (5th percentile)

boys:

31 births since 1987

#4555 (1st percentile)

overall:

319 births since 1969

#7420 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1969 2023 19692023

Key Statistics

Total Births
288
Peak Births
21
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1969
Peak Percentile
1.7%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#740
Current Rank
#946
Female statistics
Total Births
31
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1987
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#713
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce British

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

Our model is 100.0% confident that British is pronounced as BRIH-tihsh.

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BRIH-tihsh (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
B R IH1 T IH0 SH

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

BIH-trihs (2 syllables)
1 name 97 births
B IH1 T R IH0 S

Names with this pronunciation:

ber-TRIHS (2 syllables)
1 name 64 births
B ER0 T R IH1 S

Names with this pronunciation:

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 R IH1 T IH0 SH) 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.