Misao

girls:

337 births since 1905

#5379 (6th percentile)

overall:

337 births since 1905

#7402 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Misao is the #7,402 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 337 recorded births since 1905. This represents the 4.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,379 (5.9% percentile) for all time with 337 births since 1905.

Misao first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905 (first recorded for girls in 1905). Birth data for Misao is available in 25 out of the 28 years between 1905 and 1932. 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, Misao reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #586) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 23 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1932.

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

1905 1932 19051932

Key Statistics

Total Births
337
Peak Births
29
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1905
Peak Percentile
3.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#586
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Misao

Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Misao. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 23.7% confident that Misao is pronounced as mih-SAH-oh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-SOW, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.

mih-SAH-oh (3 syllables)
23.7% confidence
M IH0 S AA1 OW0
mih-SOW (2 syllables)
18.4% confidence
M IH0 S AW1
MEE-sow (2 syllables)
15.8% confidence
M IY1 S AW0
mee-SAW (2 syllables)
10.5% confidence
M IY0 S AO1
mee-SOW (2 syllables)
7.9% confidence
M IY0 S AW1
mee-SAH-oh (3 syllables)
7.9% confidence
M IY0 S AA1 OW0
MEE-sah-oh (3 syllables)
5.3% confidence
M IY1 S AA0 OW0
mee-SUH-oh (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M IY0 S AH1 OW0
MIH-sow (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M IH1 S AW0
mee-SUH-oy (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M IY0 S AH1 OY0
mih-sah-oh (3 syllables)
2.6% confidence
M IH0 S AA0 OW0

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 IH0 S AA1 OW0) 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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