girls:
706 births since 1882
#5010 (12th percentile)
overall:
706 births since 1882
#7033 (9th percentile)
The name Caldonia is the #7,033 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 706 recorded births since 1882. This represents the 9.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,010 (12.3% percentile) for all time with 706 births since 1882.
Caldonia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1882 (first recorded for girls in 1882). Birth data for Caldonia is available in 62 out of the 135 years between 1882 and 2016. 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 girls, Caldonia reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #572) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 69 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caldonia".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Caldonia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.3% confident that Caldonia is pronounced as kal-DOH-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kal-DOH-nyuh, at 21.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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