girls:
12 births since 1918
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
15.9k births since 1880
#920 (80th percentile)
overall:
15.9k births since 1880
#2060 (73rd percentile)
The name Irwin is the #2,060 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,929 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 73.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #920 (79.9% percentile) for all time with 15,917 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1918.
Irwin has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1918 for girls).
The name Irwin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Irwin reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 56.7% percentile (ranked #237) with 458 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 458 births per million (ranked 56.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Irwin ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Irwin reached its peak popularity in 1925, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #612) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1925.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Irwin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Irwin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 74.4% confident that Irwin is pronounced as ER-wihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ER-wuhn, at 14.0% 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 W 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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