girls:
15.6k births since 1880
#1217 (79th percentile)
overall:
15.6k births since 1880
#2091 (73rd percentile)
The name Lelia is the #2,091 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,605 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 73.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 73.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,217 (78.7% percentile) for all time with 15,605 births since 1880.
Lelia has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Lelia reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 45.1% percentile (ranked #196) with 648 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 821 births per million (ranked 35.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Lelia ranks #919 for girls (3.0% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 2.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lelia".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Lelia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.3% confident that Lelia is pronounced as LEEL-yuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEE-lee-uh, at 23.4% confidence, with 3 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 L IY1 L Y 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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