girls:
19.8k births since 1886
#1037 (82nd percentile)
boys:
446k births since 1880
#72 (98th percentile)
overall:
465.8k births since 1880
#143 (98th percentile)
The name Christian is the #143 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 465,807 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #72 (98.5% percentile) for all time with 445,985 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,037 (81.9% percentile) for all time with 19,822 births since 1886.
Christian has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1886 for girls).
The name Christian has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Christian reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 97.7% percentile (ranked #21) with 6,608 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 7,896 births per million (ranked 97.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2000, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Christian ranks #75 for boys (91.9% percentile) with 2,253 births per million, which is 28.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Christian reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 69.5% percentile (ranked #263) with 492 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 492 births per million (ranked 69.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Christian ranks #913 for girls (3.6% percentile) with 22 births per million, which is 4.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Christian".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Christian. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 49.2% confident that Christian is pronounced as KRIHS-chuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KRIH-stee-uhn, at 25.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 K R IH1 S CH AH0 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.
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