Buff

girls:

47 births since 1952

#5669 (1st percentile)

boys:

31 births since 1953

#4555 (1st percentile)

overall:

78 births since 1952

#7661 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1952 1961 19521961

Key Statistics

Total Births
47
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1955
First Recorded
1952
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#690
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
31
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
1955
First Recorded
1953
Peak Percentile
0.3%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#606
Current Rank
#664
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Buff

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Buff. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 89.7% confident that Buff is pronounced as buhf. The next most likely pronunciation is boof, at 10.3% confidence.

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89.7%
1
10.3%
buhf (1 syllable)
Verified
89.7% confidence
B AH1 F
boof (1 syllable)
10.3% confidence
B UH1 F

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

bahb (1 syllable)
4 names 94.6k births
B AA1 B
behv (1 syllable)
1 name 1k births
B EH1 V

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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 AH1 F) 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.