girls:
41 births since 1892
#5675 (1st percentile)
boys:
193 births since 1911
#4393 (4th percentile)
overall:
234 births since 1892
#7505 (3rd percentile)
The name Ervie is the #7,505 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 234 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,393 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 193 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,675 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 41 births since 1892.
Ervie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for girls and 1911 for boys). Birth data for Ervie is available in 30 out of the 78 years between 1892 and 1969 (28 years for boys and 7 years for girls). 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 Ervie has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.5% of all recorded births being male. In 1969, 100.0% of babies named Ervie were boys. Interestingly, until around 1911, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1892 to 1910), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (84.3% boys from 1911 to 1969).
For boys, Ervie reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #537) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 21 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1969.
For girls, Ervie reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #570) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 22 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1929.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ervie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ervie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.5% confident that Ervie is pronounced as ER-vee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is er-VEE, at 10.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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