girls:
393 births since 1952
#5323 (7th percentile)
overall:
393 births since 1952
#7346 (5th percentile)
The name Holiday is the #7,346 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 393 recorded births since 1952. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,323 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 393 births since 1952.
Holiday first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1952 (first recorded for girls in 1952). Birth data for Holiday is available in 37 out of the 72 years between 1952 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 girls, Holiday reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #928) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 12 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Holiday ranks #935 for girls (1.3% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 81.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Holiday".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Holiday. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.7% confident that Holiday is pronounced as HAH-luh-day, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HAH-luh-DAY, at 38.7% confidence, with 3 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 HH AA1 L AH0 D EY0) 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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