Lawyer

boys:

1k births since 1880

#3572 (22nd percentile)

overall:

1k births since 1880

#6718 (13th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2021 18802021

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,021
Peak Births
31
Peak Year
1911
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
5.4%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#200
Current Rank
#928
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Lawyer

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lawyer. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 70.6% confident that Lawyer is pronounced as LAW-yer. The next most likely pronunciation is LOY-er, at 17.6% confidence.

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LAW-yer (2 syllables)
Verified
70.6% confidence
L AO1 Y ER0
LOY-er (2 syllables)
Verified
17.6% confidence
L OY1 ER0
LAW-er (2 syllables)
11.8% confidence
L AO1 ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

LAW-ruh (2 syllables)
7 names 856.2k births
L AO1 R AH0
lor (1 syllable)
8 names 3.3k births
L AO1 R

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 L AO1 Y ER0) 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.