girls:
6.1k births since 1928
#2132 (63rd percentile)
boys:
16.8k births since 1880
#887 (81st percentile)
overall:
22.8k births since 1880
#1674 (78th percentile)
The name Monroe is the #1,674 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 22,845 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 78.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #887 (80.7% percentile) for all time with 16,775 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,132 (62.7% percentile) for all time with 6,070 births since 1928.
Monroe has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1928 for girls).
The name Monroe has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.4% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 19.8% of babies named Monroe were boys. Interestingly, until around 2010, the name was more popular for boys (97.9% boys from 1880 to 2009), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (78.4% girls from 2010 to 2023).
For boys, Monroe reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 50.6% percentile (ranked #263) with 345 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 623 births per million (ranked 33.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Monroe ranks #775 for boys (14.9% percentile) with 77 births per million, which is 12.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Monroe reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 52.0% percentile (ranked #450) with 328 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 328 births per million (ranked 52.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Monroe is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #468 (50.6% percentile) with 326 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Monroe".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Monroe. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.9% confident that Monroe is pronounced as muh-NROH, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MUH-nroh, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 N R OW1) 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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