boys:
6.5k births since 1880
#1465 (68th percentile)
overall:
6.5k births since 1880
#3359 (57th percentile)
The name Buck is the #3,359 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,478 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 56.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,465 (68.0% percentile) for all time with 6,478 births since 1880.
Buck has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Buck reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 18.2% percentile (ranked #438) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 235 births per million (ranked 15.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Buck ranks #850 for boys (6.7% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 15.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Buck".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Buck. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Buck is pronounced as buhk, which has 1 syllables.
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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 AH1 K) 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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