girls:
260 births since 1946
#5456 (5th percentile)
overall:
260 births since 1946
#7479 (3rd percentile)
The name Chalice is the #7,479 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 260 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 3.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,456 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 260 births since 1946.
Chalice first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946). Birth data for Chalice is available in 34 out of the 62 years between 1946 and 2007. 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, Chalice reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #848) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1990, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Chalice".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chalice. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.6% confident that Chalice is pronounced as CHA-lihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHA-luhs, at 24.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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