Liam

girls:

485 births since 1995

#5231 (8th percentile)

boys:

315.2k births since 1947

#106 (98th percentile)

overall:

315.7k births since 1947

#239 (97th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1947 2023 19472023

Key Statistics

Total Births
485
Peak Births
38
Peak Year
2017
First Recorded
1995
Peak Percentile
3.5%
Current Percentile
2.6%
Peak Rank
#847
Current Rank
#922
Female statistics
Total Births
315,184
Peak Births
20,802
Peak Year
2017
First Recorded
1947
Peak Percentile
100.0%
Current Percentile
100.0%
Peak Rank
#1
Current Rank
#1
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Liam

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Liam. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Liam is pronounced as LEE-uhm.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

LAI-uhm (2 syllables)
4 names 1.9k births
L AY1 AH0 M
leem (1 syllable)
5 names 1.4k births
L IY1 M

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 IY1 AH0 M) 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.