girls:
10k births since 1880
#1597 (72nd percentile)
overall:
10k births since 1880
#2675 (65th percentile)
The name Ione is the #2,675 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,976 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,597 (72.1% percentile) for all time with 9,976 births since 1880.
Ione has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Ione is available in 129 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Ione reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 47.4% percentile (ranked #304) with 320 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 327 births per million (ranked 27.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Ione ranks #938 for girls (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ione".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Ione. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.8% confident that Ione is pronounced as ai-OH-nee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ai-OHN, at 27.8% 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 AY0 OW1 N IY0) 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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