girls:
137 births since 1922
#5579 (2nd percentile)
boys:
193 births since 1928
#4393 (4th percentile)
overall:
330 births since 1922
#7409 (4th percentile)
The name Fontaine is the #7,409 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 330 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 4.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,393 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 193 births since 1928. For girls, it ranks #5,579 (2.4% percentile) for all time with 137 births since 1922.
Fontaine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 1928 for boys). Birth data for Fontaine is available in 44 out of the 86 years between 1922 and 2007 (27 years for boys and 22 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 Fontaine has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (58.5% of all recorded births). In 2007, 100.0% of babies named Fontaine were boys. Interestingly, until around 1928, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1922 to 1927), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (59.8% boys from 1928 to 2007).
For boys, Fontaine reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #668) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
For girls, Fontaine reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #767) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Fontaine".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Fontaine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.2% confident that Fontaine is pronounced as fahn-TAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is fawn-TAYN, at 33.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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