boys:
4k births since 1880
#1936 (58th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1880
#4332 (44th percentile)
The name General is the #4,332 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,018 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 44.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,936 (57.8% percentile) for all time with 4,018 births since 1880.
General has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for General is available in 141 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For boys, General reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 18.7% percentile (ranked #432) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 310 births per million (ranked 14.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, General ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 1.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "General".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name General. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.0% confident that General is pronounced as JEH-ner-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-nruhl, at 24.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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