Forbus

boys:

5 births since 1920

#4581 (0th percentile)

overall:

5 births since 1920

#7734 (0th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1919 1921 19191921

Key Statistics

Total Births
5
Peak Births
5
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1920
Peak Percentile
0.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#535
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Forbus

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Forbus. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 84.6% confident that Forbus is pronounced as FOR-buhs. The next most likely pronunciation is FOR-bihs, at 15.4% confidence.

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84.6%
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15.4%
FOR-buhs (2 syllables)
84.6% confidence
F AO1 R B AH0 S
FOR-bihs (2 syllables)
Verified
15.4% confidence
F AO1 R B IH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

FAW-rihst (2 syllables)
4 names 70.7k births
F AO1 R IH0 S T
FAW-ruhst (2 syllables)
4 names 70.7k births
F AO1 R AH0 S T

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 F AO1 R B AH0 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.