girls:
23 births since 1993
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
473 births since 1961
#4113 (10th percentile)
overall:
496 births since 1961
#7243 (6th percentile)
The name Falcon is the #7,243 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 496 recorded births since 1961. This represents the 6.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,113 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 473 births since 1961. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1993.
Falcon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1961 (1961 for boys and 1993 for girls). Birth data for Falcon is available in 35 out of the 63 years between 1961 and 2023 (35 years for boys and 4 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 Falcon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Falcon reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #877) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 16 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Falcon ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 62.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Falcon reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Falcon".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Falcon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.8% confident that Falcon is pronounced as FAL-kuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FAHL-kuhn, at 23.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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