girls:
77.9k births since 1880
#441 (92nd percentile)
boys:
278 births since 1887
#4308 (6th percentile)
overall:
78.1k births since 1880
#812 (90th percentile)
The name Mamie is the #812 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 78,148 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #441 (92.3% percentile) for all time with 77,870 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,308 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 278 births since 1887.
Mamie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1887 for boys).
The name Mamie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mamie reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 83.7% percentile (ranked #59) with 4,208 births per million. The name was most common in 1888, with 4,840 births per million (ranked 82.0% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Mamie ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mamie reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #546) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 61 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1944.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mamie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mamie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.1% confident that Mamie is pronounced as MAY-mee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-mee, at 27.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 M EY1 M IY0) 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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