girls:
58.2k births since 1880
#528 (91st percentile)
overall:
58.2k births since 1880
#979 (87th percentile)
The name Delilah is the #979 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 58,222 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #528 (90.8% percentile) for all time with 58,222 births since 1880.
Delilah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Delilah reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 94.8% percentile (ranked #50) with 2,304 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 2,304 births per million (ranked 94.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Delilah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #50 (94.8% percentile) with 2,304 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Delilah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Delilah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.3% confident that Delilah is pronounced as dih-LAI-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is duh-LAI-luh, at 16.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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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 IH0 L AY1 L AH0) 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.
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