Essex

girls:

8 births since 2023

#5708 (0th percentile)

boys:

397 births since 1882

#4189 (9th percentile)

overall:

405 births since 1882

#7334 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1882 2023 18822023

Key Statistics

Total Births
8
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
2023
Peak Percentile
0.3%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#944
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics
Total Births
397
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1894
First Recorded
1882
Peak Percentile
1.4%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#198
Current Rank
#900
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Essex

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Essex. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 72.1% confident that Essex is pronounced as EH-sihks. The next most likely pronunciation is EH-suhks, at 11.6% confidence.

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72.1%
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11.6%
EH-sihks (2 syllables)
Verified
72.1% confidence
EH1 S IH0 K S
EH-suhks (2 syllables)
11.6% confidence
EH1 S AH0 K S
EH-sehks (2 syllables)
9.3% confidence
EH1 S EH0 K S
EH-seeks (2 syllables)
7.0% confidence
EH1 S IY0 K S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Essex. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Essex, please vote using the thumbs up button.

EE-suhk (2 syllables)
11 names 33.3k births
IY1 S AH0 K
ai-zihk (2 syllables)
1 name 4.2k births
AY0 Z IH0 K

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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 EH1 S IH0 K S) 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.