girls:
3.5k births since 1880
#2908 (49th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1918
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.5k births since 1880
#4604 (40th percentile)
The name Florida is the #4,604 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,532 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 40.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,908 (49.1% percentile) for all time with 3,527 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1918.
Florida has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1918 for boys). Birth data for Florida is available in 102 out of the 115 years between 1880 and 1994 (102 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Florida has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Florida reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 15.3% percentile (ranked #520) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 211 births per million (ranked 12.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1994.
For boys, Florida reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #531) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1918.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Florida".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Florida. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 49.2% confident that Florida is pronounced as FLAW-rih-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FLAW-ruh-duh, at 25.4% confidence, with 3 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 F L AO1 R IH0 D AH0) 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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