boys:
1.3k births since 1880
#3332 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.3k births since 1880
#6462 (16th percentile)
The name Lige is the #6,462 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,280 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 16.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 16.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,332 (27.3% percentile) for all time with 1,280 births since 1880.
Lige has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Lige is available in 96 out of the 127 years between 1880 and 2006. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Lige reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #166) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 231 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Lige".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Lige. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.4% confident that Lige is pronounced as laij, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is leej, at 21.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like L AY1 JH) 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.
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