Easter

girls:

5.5k births since 1880

#2250 (61st percentile)

boys:

66 births since 1914

#4520 (1st percentile)

overall:

5.6k births since 1880

#3638 (53rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Easter is the #3,638 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,579 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 53.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,250 (60.6% percentile) for all time with 5,513 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,520 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 66 births since 1914.

Easter has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1914 for boys). Birth data for Easter is available in 126 out of the 138 years between 1880 and 2017 (126 years for girls and 12 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 Easter has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.8% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Easter reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 20.6% percentile (ranked #488) with 105 births per million. The name was most common in 1883, with 175 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.

For boys, Easter reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #541) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1936.

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

1880 2017 18802017

Key Statistics

Total Births
5,513
Peak Births
133
Peak Year
1925
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
20.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#488
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
66
Peak Births
7
Peak Year
1928
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
0.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#541
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Easter

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Easter. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Easter is pronounced as EE-ster, which has 2 syllables.

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EE-ster (2 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
IY1 S T ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 IY1 S T 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.

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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