girls:
13.9k births since 1880
#1311 (77th percentile)
overall:
13.9k births since 1880
#2223 (71st percentile)
The name Edythe is the #2,223 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,865 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 71.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,311 (77.1% percentile) for all time with 13,865 births since 1880.
Edythe has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Edythe is available in 125 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Edythe reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 57.7% percentile (ranked #250) with 484 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 529 births per million (ranked 55.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Edythe ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 1.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Edythe".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Edythe", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Edith" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Edith..
Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Edythe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.0% confident that Edythe is pronounced as AY-dihth, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-deeth, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 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 EY1 D IH0 TH) 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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