girls:
73.6k births since 1880
#454 (92nd percentile)
boys:
252 births since 1915
#4334 (5th percentile)
overall:
73.9k births since 1880
#841 (89th percentile)
The name Irma is the #841 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73,901 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #454 (92.1% percentile) for all time with 73,649 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,334 (5.4% percentile) for all time with 252 births since 1915.
Irma has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1915 for boys).
The name Irma has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Irma reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 74.9% percentile (ranked #141) with 1,279 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 1,392 births per million (ranked 67.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Irma ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 2.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Irma reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #519) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1938, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irma".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Irma. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Irma is pronounced as ER-muh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is IHR-muh, at 12.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 ER1 M 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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