girls:
100 births since 1998
#5616 (2nd percentile)
boys:
577 births since 1997
#4009 (13th percentile)
overall:
677 births since 1997
#7062 (9th percentile)
The name Maguire is the #7,062 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 677 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 8.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,009 (12.5% percentile) for all time with 577 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,616 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 100 births since 1998.
Maguire first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 1998 for girls).
The name Maguire has been given predominantly to boys, with 85.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 43.8% of babies named Maguire were boys.
For boys, Maguire reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 6.0% percentile (ranked #765) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 26 births per million (ranked 6.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maguire ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maguire reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #893) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Maguire is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #943 (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maguire".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Maguire. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Maguire is pronounced as muhg-WIRE, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muhg-WAI-er, at 43.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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