girls:
31 births since 1919
#5685 (1st percentile)
boys:
282 births since 2002
#4304 (6th percentile)
overall:
313 births since 1919
#7426 (4th percentile)
The name Future is the #7,426 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 313 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 4.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,304 (6.1% percentile) for all time with 282 births since 2002. For girls, it ranks #5,685 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 31 births since 1919.
Future first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for girls and 2002 for boys). Birth data for Future is available in 23 out of the 105 years between 1919 and 2023 (19 years for boys and 6 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 Future has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.1% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 2002, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1919 to 2001), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (94.9% boys from 2002 to 2023).
For boys, Future reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #898) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Future ranks #884 for boys (3.0% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 88.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Future reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #767) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Future".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Future. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Future is pronounced as FYUE-cher, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is FYUET-cher, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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