girls:
932 births since 1916
#4784 (16th percentile)
boys:
146.2k births since 1880
#229 (95th percentile)
overall:
147.1k births since 1880
#507 (93rd percentile)
The name Eli is the #507 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 147,097 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 93.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #229 (95.0% percentile) for all time with 146,165 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,784 (16.3% percentile) for all time with 932 births since 1916.
Eli has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Eli has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Eli reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 95.3% percentile (ranked #43) with 3,979 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 3,979 births per million (ranked 95.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Eli ranks #78 for boys (91.5% percentile) with 2,229 births per million, which is 56.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Eli reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #900) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Eli ranks #923 for girls (2.5% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 72.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eli".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Eli. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.4% confident that Eli is pronounced as EE-lai, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-lai, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 L AY0) 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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