girls:
5 births since 1920
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
899 births since 1883
#3690 (19th percentile)
overall:
904 births since 1883
#6835 (12th percentile)
The name Irvine is the #6,835 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 904 recorded births since 1883. This represents the 11.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,690 (19.5% percentile) for all time with 899 births since 1883. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1920.
Irvine first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1883 (1883 for boys and 1920 for girls). Birth data for Irvine is available in 79 out of the 124 years between 1883 and 2006 (79 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Irvine has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Irvine reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #478) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 70 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
For girls, Irvine reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #608) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1920.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irvine".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Irvine. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 34.1% confident that Irvine is pronounced as ER-vain, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ER-vihn, at 31.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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