boys:
2.6k births since 1880
#2468 (46th percentile)
overall:
2.6k births since 1880
#5248 (32nd percentile)
The name Gorge is the #5,248 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,608 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 32.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 32.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,468 (46.2% percentile) for all time with 2,608 births since 1880.
Gorge has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Gorge is available in 108 out of the 141 years between 1880 and 2020. 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, Gorge reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 8.6% percentile (ranked #603) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 56 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gorge".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Gorge. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.0% confident that Gorge is pronounced as gorj, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is gorg, at 13.0% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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