girls:
1.6k births since 1960
#4191 (27th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2016
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1960
#6174 (20th percentile)
The name December is the #6,174 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,572 recorded births since 1960. This represents the 20.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,191 (26.7% percentile) for all time with 1,561 births since 1960. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2016.
December first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1960 (1960 for girls and 2016 for boys). Birth data for December is available in 62 out of the 64 years between 1960 and 2023 (62 years for girls and 2 years for boys). 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 December has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, December reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #896) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 24 births per million (ranked 4.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, December ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 77.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, December reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #920) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "December".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name December. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.2% confident that December is pronounced as dih-SEHM-ber, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is dee-SEHM-ber, at 25.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like D IH0 S EH1 M B ER0) 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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