boys:
2.3k births since 1907
#2627 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1907
#5497 (29th percentile)
The name Candelario is the #5,497 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,308 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 29.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,627 (42.7% percentile) for all time with 2,308 births since 1907.
Candelario first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (first recorded for boys in 1907). Birth data for Candelario is available in 110 out of the 117 years between 1907 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 boys, Candelario reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #498) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 34 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Candelario ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 11.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Candelario".
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Our model has identified 17 different pronunciations for the name Candelario. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 26.8% confident that Candelario is pronounced as kahn-deh-LAH-ree-oh, which has 5 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kan-duh-LAH-ree-oh, at 22.0% confidence, with 5 syllables.
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