girls:
7k births since 1882
#1962 (66th percentile)
boys:
126.7k births since 1880
#259 (94th percentile)
overall:
133.7k births since 1880
#555 (93rd percentile)
The name Gene is the #555 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 133,720 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 92.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #259 (94.4% percentile) for all time with 126,728 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,962 (65.7% percentile) for all time with 6,992 births since 1882.
Gene has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1882 for girls).
The name Gene has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Gene reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 88.7% percentile (ranked #62) with 2,706 births per million. The name was most common in 1937, with 2,894 births per million (ranked 88.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Gene ranks #841 for boys (7.7% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 1.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Gene reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 46.2% percentile (ranked #331) with 296 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 296 births per million (ranked 46.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gene".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Gene is pronounced as jeen, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeen, at 10.3% confidence, with 1 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 JH IY1 N) 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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