girls:
1.6k births since 1880
#4171 (27th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1880
#6161 (20th percentile)
The name Missouri is the #6,161 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,585 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 20.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 20.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,171 (27.0% percentile) for all time with 1,585 births since 1880.
Missouri has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Missouri is available in 86 out of the 144 years between 1880 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, Missouri reached its peak popularity in 1889, achieving the 12.3% percentile (ranked #250) with 211 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 236 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Missouri ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Missouri".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Missouri. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 42.6% confident that Missouri is pronounced as mih-ZOO-ree, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-ZOO-ree, at 14.9% confidence, with 3 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 IH0 Z UH1 R 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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