Chares

boys:

69 births since 1939

#4517 (1st percentile)

overall:

69 births since 1939

#7670 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Chares is the #7,670 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69 recorded births since 1939. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,517 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 69 births since 1939.

Chares first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1939 (first recorded for boys in 1939). Birth data for Chares is available in 11 out of the 37 years between 1939 and 1975. 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, Chares reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #661) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1961, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.

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

1939 1975 19391975

Key Statistics

Total Births
69
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1961
First Recorded
1939
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#661
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Chares

Our model has identified 15 different pronunciations for the name Chares. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 17.5% confident that Chares is pronounced as chairz, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is CHEH-rihz, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.

chairz (1 syllable)
17.5% confidence
CH EH1 R Z
CHEH-rihz (2 syllables)
17.5% confidence
CH EH1 R IH0 Z
CHAH-reez (2 syllables)
15.0% confidence
CH AA1 R IY0 Z
CHEH-rihs (2 syllables)
7.5% confidence
CH EH1 R IH0 S
chahrz (1 syllable)
7.5% confidence
CH AA1 R Z
CHEH-reez (2 syllables)
7.5% confidence
CH EH1 R IY0 Z
shairz (1 syllable)
5.0% confidence
SH EH1 R Z
SHEH-reez (2 syllables)
5.0% confidence
SH EH1 R IY0 Z
SHA-reez (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
SH AE1 R IY0 Z
CHEH-ruhs (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
CH EH1 R AH0 S
CHEH-rehs (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
CH EH1 R EH0 S
SHAH-reez (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
SH AA1 R IY0 Z
CHA-reez (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
CH AE1 R IY0 Z
CHEH-ruhz (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
CH EH1 R AH0 Z
KEH-reez (2 syllables)
2.5% confidence
K EH1 R IY0 Z

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 EH1 R Z) 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.

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