Calais

girls:

173 births since 1984

#5543 (3rd percentile)

boys:

72 births since 2017

#4514 (2nd percentile)

overall:

245 births since 1984

#7494 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1984 2023 19842023

Key Statistics

Total Births
173
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
1985
First Recorded
1984
Peak Percentile
0.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#787
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
72
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
2019
First Recorded
2017
Peak Percentile
1.1%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#894
Current Rank
#908
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Calais

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Calais. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 48.3% confident that Calais is pronounced as kuh-LAY. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-lay, at 29.3% confidence.

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KA-lay (2 syllables)
29.3% confidence
K AE1 L EY0
KA-LAY (2 syllables)
17.2% confidence
K AE1 L EY1
KA-lihs (2 syllables)
5.2% confidence
K AE1 L IH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

KAI-lay (2 syllables)
4 names 20.6k births
K AY1 L EY0
kah-LAY (2 syllables)
4 names 2.3k births
K AA0 L EY1

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 K AH0 L EY1) 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.