girls:
483 births since 1911
#5233 (8th percentile)
boys:
70.8k births since 1880
#390 (92nd percentile)
overall:
71.3k births since 1880
#859 (89th percentile)
The name Morris is the #859 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 71,303 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #390 (91.5% percentile) for all time with 70,820 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,233 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 483 births since 1911.
Morris has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1911 for girls).
The name Morris has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Morris reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 82.0% percentile (ranked #97) with 1,635 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 2,126 births per million (ranked 79.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Morris ranks #811 for boys (11.0% percentile) with 57 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Morris reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #599) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 18 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1985.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Morris".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Morris. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.3% confident that Morris is pronounced as MAW-rihs, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAW-ruhs, at 18.8% confidence, with 2 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 AO1 R IH0 S) 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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