girls:
87 births since 1922
#5629 (1st percentile)
boys:
21.9k births since 1880
#774 (83rd percentile)
overall:
22k births since 1880
#1718 (78th percentile)
The name Cleveland is the #1,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,008 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 77.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 77.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #774 (83.1% percentile) for all time with 21,921 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,629 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 87 births since 1922.
Cleveland has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1922 for girls).
The name Cleveland has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Cleveland reached its peak popularity in 1884, achieving the 59.0% percentile (ranked #87) with 1,418 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 1,418 births per million (ranked 59.0% percentile). Despite a low point around 1972, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Cleveland ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 0.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Cleveland reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #682) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1935, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1978.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cleveland".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Cleveland. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Cleveland is pronounced as KLEEV-luhnd, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K L IY1 V L AH0 N D) 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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