girls:
752 births since 1885
#4964 (13th percentile)
overall:
752 births since 1885
#6987 (10th percentile)
The name Medora is the #6,987 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 752 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 9.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,964 (13.1% percentile) for all time with 752 births since 1885.
Medora first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (first recorded for girls in 1885). Birth data for Medora is available in 86 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023. 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 girls, Medora reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #588) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1885, with 70 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Medora ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 4.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Medora".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Medora. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.2% confident that Medora is pronounced as mih-DAW-ruh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-DAW-ruh, at 34.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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