boys:
129 births since 2011
#4457 (3rd percentile)
overall:
129 births since 2011
#7610 (2nd percentile)
The name Icarus is the #7,610 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 129 recorded births since 2011. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,457 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 129 births since 2011.
Icarus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2011 (first recorded for boys in 2011).
For boys, Icarus reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #897) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Icarus is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #897 (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Icarus".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Icarus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.5% confident that Icarus is pronounced as IH-ker-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IH-kuh-ruhs, at 14.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH1 K ER0 AH0 S) 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.
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