girls:
75 births since 1916
#5641 (1st percentile)
boys:
39.8k births since 1880
#564 (88th percentile)
overall:
39.8k births since 1880
#1242 (84th percentile)
The name Irvin is the #1,242 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,843 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #564 (87.7% percentile) for all time with 39,768 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,641 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 75 births since 1916.
Irvin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1916 for girls).
The name Irvin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Irvin reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 69.8% percentile (ranked #162) with 752 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 813 births per million (ranked 40.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Irvin ranks #843 for boys (7.5% percentile) with 40 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Irvin reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #599) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irvin".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Irvin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.2% confident that Irvin is pronounced as ER-vihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EAR-vihn, at 12.2% 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 ER1 V IH0 N) 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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