Chan

girls:

212 births since 1956

#5504 (4th percentile)

boys:

1k births since 1919

#3571 (22nd percentile)

overall:

1.2k births since 1919

#6507 (16th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1919 2022 19192022

Key Statistics

Total Births
212
Peak Births
18
Peak Year
1983
First Recorded
1956
Peak Percentile
1.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#743
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
1,022
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
2.7%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#512
Current Rank
#921
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Chan

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Chan. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 86.7% confident that Chan is pronounced as chan. The next most likely pronunciation is shan, at 13.3% confidence.

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86.7%
1
13.3%
chan (1 syllable)
Verified
86.7% confidence
CH AE1 N
shan (1 syllable)
13.3% confidence
SH AE1 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

CHAY-uhn (2 syllables)
6 names 17.8k births
CH EY1 AH0 N
chayn (1 syllable)
6 names 2k births
CH EY1 N

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 CH AE1 N) 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.