Gladiola

girls:

166 births since 1915

#5550 (3rd percentile)

overall:

166 births since 1915

#7573 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Gladiola is the #7,573 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 166 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 2.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,550 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 166 births since 1915.

Gladiola first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Gladiola is available in 23 out of the 81 years between 1915 and 1995. 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 girls, Gladiola reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #603) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.0% 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 "Gladiola".

1915 1995 19151995

Key Statistics

Total Births
166
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
1.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#603
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Gladiola

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Gladiola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 58.6% confident that Gladiola is pronounced as gla-dee-OH-luh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is glay-DEE-OH-luh, at 13.8% confidence, with 4 syllables.

gla-dee-OH-luh (4 syllables)
58.6% confidence
G L AE0 D IY0 OW1 L AH0
glay-DEE-OH-luh (4 syllables)
13.8% confidence
G L EY0 D IY1 OW1 L AH0
gluh-DEE-oh-luh (4 syllables)
10.3% confidence
G L AH0 D IY1 OW0 L AH0
gla-DEE-oh-luh (4 syllables)
10.3% confidence
G L AE0 D IY1 OW0 L AH0
GLA-dee-oh-luh (4 syllables)
6.9% confidence
G L AE1 D IY0 OW0 L AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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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 G L AE0 D IY0 OW1 L AH0) 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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