boys:
9.8k births since 1880
#1179 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.8k births since 1880
#2701 (65th percentile)
The name Lemuel is the #2,701 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,820 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,179 (74.3% percentile) for all time with 9,820 births since 1880.
Lemuel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Lemuel reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 27.6% percentile (ranked #135) with 536 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 536 births per million (ranked 27.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Lemuel ranks #850 for boys (6.7% percentile) with 36 births per million, which is 6.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lemuel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lemuel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 70.6% confident that Lemuel is pronounced as LEH-myue-uhl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is LEH-myuel, at 20.6% confidence, with 2 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 EH1 M Y UW0 AH0 L) 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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