boys:
1.1k births since 1996
#3540 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1996
#6683 (14th percentile)
The name Izaya is the #6,683 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,056 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 13.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,540 (22.8% percentile) for all time with 1,056 births since 1996.
Izaya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for boys in 1996).
For boys, Izaya reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 8.7% percentile (ranked #799) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 37 births per million (ranked 8.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2008, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Izaya ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 38.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Izaya".
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Our model has identified 14 different pronunciations for the name Izaya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 15.2% confident that Izaya is pronounced as ih-ZAY-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AI-zay-YAH, at 13.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like IH0 Z EY1 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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