girls:
438 births since 1918
#5278 (8th percentile)
boys:
97.4k births since 1880
#311 (93rd percentile)
overall:
97.8k births since 1880
#692 (91st percentile)
The name Clinton is the #692 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 97,825 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #311 (93.2% percentile) for all time with 97,387 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,278 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 438 births since 1918.
Clinton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1918 for girls).
The name Clinton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Clinton reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 81.9% percentile (ranked #124) with 1,185 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 1,185 births per million (ranked 81.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Clinton ranks #814 for boys (10.7% percentile) with 56 births per million, which is 4.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Clinton reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #595) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1992.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Clinton".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Clinton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Clinton is pronounced as KLIHN-tuhn, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K L IH1 N T 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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