girls:
43 births since 1916
#5673 (1st percentile)
boys:
375 births since 1910
#4211 (8th percentile)
overall:
418 births since 1910
#7321 (5th percentile)
The name Curlee is the #7,321 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 418 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 5.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,211 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 375 births since 1910. For girls, it ranks #5,673 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 43 births since 1916.
Curlee first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (1910 for boys and 1916 for girls). Birth data for Curlee is available in 47 out of the 78 years between 1910 and 1987 (45 years for boys and 8 years for girls). 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.
The name Curlee has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.7% of all recorded births being male. In 1987, 100.0% of babies named Curlee were boys.
For boys, Curlee reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #515) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 24 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
For girls, Curlee reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #572) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1916, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1932.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Curlee".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Curlee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Curlee is pronounced as KER-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is KER-LEE, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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