girls:
5 births since 1927
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
7.8k births since 1880
#1336 (71st percentile)
overall:
7.8k births since 1880
#3056 (61st percentile)
The name Napoleon is the #3,056 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 7,775 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 60.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 60.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,336 (70.9% percentile) for all time with 7,770 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1927.
Napoleon has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1927 for girls).
The name Napoleon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Napoleon reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 20.9% percentile (ranked #436) with 107 births per million. The name was most common in 1887, with 293 births per million (ranked 13.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Napoleon ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 2.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Napoleon reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #603) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Napoleon".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Napoleon. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Napoleon is pronounced as nuh-POH-lee-uhn, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuh-POHL-yuhn, at 18.4% 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 N AH0 P OW1 L IY0 AH0 N) 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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