Miami

girls:

325 births since 1922

#5391 (6th percentile)

boys:

6 births since 2022

#4580 (0th percentile)

overall:

331 births since 1922

#7408 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Miami is the #7,408 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 331 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,391 (5.7% percentile) for all time with 325 births since 1922. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2022.

Miami first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 2022 for boys). Birth data for Miami is available in 29 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (29 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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.

The name Miami has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.2% of all recorded births being female.

For girls, Miami reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #921) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Miami ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 61.5% of its peak share of births.

For boys, Miami reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #923) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.

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

1922 2023 19222023

Key Statistics

Total Births
325
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1922
Peak Percentile
1.6%
Current Percentile
0.7%
Peak Rank
#921
Current Rank
#940
Female statistics
Total Births
6
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
2022
Peak Percentile
0.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#923
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Miami

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Miami. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 46.8% confident that Miami is pronounced as mai-A-mee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-AH-mee, at 14.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.

mai-A-mee (3 syllables)
Verified
46.8% confidence
M AY0 AE1 M IY0
mee-AH-mee (3 syllables)
Verified
14.9% confidence
M IY0 AA1 M IY0
mee-uh-MEE (3 syllables)
10.6% confidence
M IY0 AH0 M IY1
MEE-a-mee (3 syllables)
8.5% confidence
M IY1 AE0 M IY0
mai-AH-mee (3 syllables)
8.5% confidence
M AY0 AA1 M IY0
MEE-ah-mee (3 syllables)
6.4% confidence
M IY1 AA0 M IY0
mai-UH-mee (3 syllables)
4.3% confidence
M AY0 AH1 M IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 M AY0 AE1 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.

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