girls:
97 births since 1900
#5619 (2nd percentile)
overall:
97 births since 1900
#7642 (1st percentile)
The name Caledonia is the #7,642 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 97 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,619 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 97 births since 1900.
Caledonia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (first recorded for girls in 1900). Birth data for Caledonia is available in 14 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023. 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, Caledonia reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #901) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 16 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Caledonia ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 18.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Caledonia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Caledonia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Caledonia is pronounced as KA-luh-DOH-nee-uh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ka-luh-DOH-nee-uh, at 40.0% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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