Eli

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)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
932
Peak Births
42
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
4.0%
Current Percentile
2.5%
Peak Rank
#572
Current Rank
#923
Female statistics
Total Births
146,165
Peak Births
8,075
Peak Year
2012
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
95.3%
Current Percentile
91.5%
Peak Rank
#43
Current Rank
#78
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Eli

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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EE-lai (2 syllables)
Verified
61.4% confidence
IY1 L AY0
EH-lai (2 syllables)
11.4% confidence
EH1 L AY0
ee-lai (2 syllables)
9.1% confidence
IY0 L AY0

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 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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