Dawson

girls:

1.2k births since 1998

#4493 (21st percentile)

boys:

47.7k births since 1885

#518 (89th percentile)

overall:

48.9k births since 1885

#1092 (86th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1885 2023 18852023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,226
Peak Births
100
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1998
Peak Percentile
10.1%
Current Percentile
10.0%
Peak Rank
#842
Current Rank
#852
Female statistics
Total Births
47,700
Peak Births
2,802
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1885
Peak Percentile
84.1%
Current Percentile
84.1%
Peak Rank
#136
Current Rank
#146
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dawson

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Dawson. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Dawson is pronounced as DAW-suhn.

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DAW-suhn (2 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
D AO1 S AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

DAW-sihn (2 syllables)
3 names 1.6k births
D AO1 S IH0 N
DAH-suhn (2 syllables)
1 name 621 births
D AA1 S AH0 N

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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.

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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.