boys:
48 births since 1914
#4538 (1st percentile)
overall:
48 births since 1914
#7691 (1st percentile)
The name Huron is the #7,691 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 48 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 0.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,538 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1914.
Huron first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (first recorded for boys in 1914). Birth data for Huron is available in 8 out of the 24 years between 1914 and 1937. 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, Huron reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #551) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1937.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Huron".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Huron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.0% confident that Huron is pronounced as HYOO-rahn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is HYOO-ruhn, at 31.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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