girls:
4.1k births since 1880
#2690 (53rd percentile)
overall:
4.1k births since 1880
#4279 (45th percentile)
The name Inga is the #4,279 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,103 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 44.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,690 (52.9% percentile) for all time with 4,103 births since 1880.
Inga has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Inga reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 14.4% percentile (ranked #653) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 227 births per million (ranked 13.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Inga ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 2.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Inga".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Inga. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.2% confident that Inga is pronounced as IHN-guh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IHNGG-uh, at 41.9% confidence, with 2 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 IH1 N G AH0) 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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