Detroit

boys:

148 births since 1914

#4438 (3rd percentile)

overall:

148 births since 1914

#7591 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1914 2022 19142022

Key Statistics

Total Births
148
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
1922
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#455
Current Rank
#923
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Detroit

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Detroit. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 60.0% confident that Detroit is pronounced as dih-TROYT. The next most likely pronunciation is DEE-TROYT, at 16.0% confidence.

dih-TROYT (2 syllables)
Verified
60.0% confidence
D IH0 T R OY1 T
DEE-TROYT (2 syllables)
Verified
16.0% confidence
D IY1 T R OY1 T
dee-TROYT (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
D IY0 T R OY1 T
duh-TROYT (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
D AH0 T R OY1 T
dih-TROY (2 syllables)
4.0% confidence
D IH0 T R OY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

dee-truh (2 syllables)
1 name 583 births
D IY0 T R AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

duh-TRUH (2 syllables)
1 name 74 births
D AH0 T R AH1

Names with this pronunciation:

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 D IH0 T R OY1 T) 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.