Curley

girls:

534 births since 1904

#5182 (9th percentile)

boys:

2.6k births since 1881

#2482 (46th percentile)

overall:

3.1k births since 1881

#4864 (37th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Curley".

1881 2003 18812003

Key Statistics

Total Births
534
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1919
First Recorded
1904
Peak Percentile
2.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#349
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
2,590
Peak Births
68
Peak Year
1944
First Recorded
1881
Peak Percentile
11.4%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#185
Current Rank
#825
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Curley

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Curley. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 92.9% confident that Curley is pronounced as KER-lee. The next most likely pronunciation is ker-lee, at 7.1% confidence.

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KER-lee (2 syllables)
Verified
92.9% confidence
K ER1 L IY0
ker-lee (2 syllables)
7.1% confidence
K ER0 L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Curley. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Curley, please vote using the thumbs up button.

KAH-ruh-lee (3 syllables)
10 names 5.4k births
K AA1 R AH0 L IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 ER1 L IY0) 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.