Kanye

girls:

24 births since 2004

#5692 (0th percentile)

boys:

1.4k births since 2002

#3245 (29th percentile)

overall:

1.4k births since 2002

#6335 (18th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Kanye".

2002 2023 20022023

Key Statistics

Total Births
24
Peak Births
19
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
2004
Peak Percentile
1.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#923
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
1,385
Peak Births
509
Peak Year
2004
First Recorded
2002
Peak Percentile
47.6%
Current Percentile
0.9%
Peak Rank
#444
Current Rank
#903
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Kanye

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Kanye. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 57.1% confident that Kanye is pronounced as KAH-nyay. The next most likely pronunciation is KAH-NYAY, at 21.4% confidence.

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KAH-nyay (2 syllables)
57.1% confidence
K AA1 N Y EY0
KAH-NYAY (2 syllables)
21.4% confidence
K AA1 N Y EY1
kuh-NYAY (2 syllables)
11.9% confidence
K AH0 N Y EY1
KA-nyay (2 syllables)
9.5% confidence
K AE1 N Y EY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Kanye. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Kanye, please vote using the thumbs up button.

kuh-NAH-yuh (3 syllables)
1 name 244 births
K AH0 N AA1 Y AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

KEH-nyay (2 syllables)
3 names 50 births
K EH1 N Y EY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

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 K AA1 N Y EY0) 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.