Dean

girls:

2.9k births since 1884

#3221 (44th percentile)

boys:

187.5k births since 1880

#191 (96th percentile)

overall:

190.4k births since 1880

#404 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,903
Peak Births
79
Peak Year
1932
First Recorded
1884
Peak Percentile
12.7%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#237
Current Rank
#947
Female statistics
Total Births
187,475
Peak Births
4,931
Peak Year
1967
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
88.0%
Current Percentile
83.0%
Peak Rank
#77
Current Rank
#156
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Dean

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

Our model is 100.0% confident that Dean is pronounced as deen.

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deen (1 syllable)
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100.0% confidence
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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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dee-uhn (2 syllables)
2 names 520.4k births
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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.

The raw pronunciations shown (like D IY1 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.