Iris

girls:

94.6k births since 1880

#386 (93rd percentile)

boys:

741 births since 1907

#3846 (16th percentile)

overall:

95.4k births since 1880

#707 (91st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Iris".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
94,640
Peak Births
2,930
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
92.1%
Current Percentile
92.1%
Peak Rank
#76
Current Rank
#76
Female statistics
Total Births
741
Peak Births
24
Peak Year
1934
First Recorded
1907
Peak Percentile
2.5%
Current Percentile
1.3%
Peak Rank
#251
Current Rank
#899
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Iris

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Iris. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 73.3% confident that Iris is pronounced as AI-rihs. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-ruhs, at 17.8% confidence.

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AI-rihs (2 syllables)
Verified
73.3% confidence
AY1 R IH0 S
AI-ruhs (2 syllables)
Verified
17.8% confidence
AY1 R AH0 S
IH-rihs (2 syllables)
8.9% confidence
IH1 R IH0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Iris. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Iris, please vote using the thumbs up button.

AI-rihz (2 syllables)
2 names 1.1k births
AY1 R IH0 Z

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

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 AY1 R IH0 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.

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.