boys:
1.1k births since 1888
#3468 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1888
#6604 (15th percentile)
The name Buel is the #6,604 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,135 recorded births since 1888. This represents the 14.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,468 (24.3% percentile) for all time with 1,135 births since 1888.
Buel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1888 (first recorded for boys in 1888). Birth data for Buel is available in 61 out of the 85 years between 1888 and 1972. 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 boys, Buel reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 11.0% percentile (ranked #486) with 58 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 61 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Buel".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Buel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.0% confident that Buel is pronounced as byuel, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is BUE-ehl, at 10.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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