girls:
12 births since 1897
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
843 births since 1895
#3744 (18th percentile)
overall:
855 births since 1895
#6884 (11th percentile)
The name Guthrie is the #6,884 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 855 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 11.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,744 (18.3% percentile) for all time with 843 births since 1895. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1897.
Guthrie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for boys and 1897 for girls). Birth data for Guthrie is available in 85 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (84 years for boys and 2 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 Guthrie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Guthrie reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #657) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 55 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Guthrie ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Guthrie reached its peak popularity in 1923, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #608) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Guthrie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Guthrie is pronounced as GUH-three, which has 2 syllables.
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