boys:
64 births since 1989
#4522 (1st percentile)
overall:
64 births since 1989
#7675 (1st percentile)
The name Colorado is the #7,675 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 64 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,522 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1989.
Colorado first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (first recorded for boys in 1989). Birth data for Colorado is available in 10 out of the 33 years between 1989 and 2021. 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, Colorado reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #870) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Colorado".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Colorado. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.8% confident that Colorado is pronounced as kah-ler-AH-doh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is kah-ler-A-doh, at 22.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like K AA2 L ER0 AA1 D OW0) 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.
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