boys:
13.4k births since 1880
#1004 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.4k births since 1880
#2267 (71st percentile)
The name Judson is the #2,267 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,387 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,004 (78.1% percentile) for all time with 13,387 births since 1880.
Judson has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Judson reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 29.3% percentile (ranked #644) with 152 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 262 births per million (ranked 12.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1995, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Judson ranks #644 for boys (29.3% percentile) with 152 births per million, which is 58.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Judson".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Judson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Judson is pronounced as JUHD-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JOOD-suhn, at 9.8% 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 JH AH1 D S AH0 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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