Nation

girls:

68 births since 2002

#5648 (1st percentile)

boys:

379 births since 1997

#4207 (8th percentile)

overall:

447 births since 1997

#7292 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1997 2023 19972023

Key Statistics

Total Births
68
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
2002
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#894
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
379
Peak Births
42
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
1997
Peak Percentile
4.1%
Current Percentile
2.1%
Peak Rank
#791
Current Rank
#892
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Nation

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nation. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Nation is pronounced as NAY-shuhn.

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NAY-shuhn (2 syllables)
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100.0% confidence
N EY1 SH AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Nation. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Nation, please vote using the thumbs up button.

NA-shuhn (2 syllables)
4 names 1.1k births
N AE1 SH AH0 N
NAY-shahn (2 syllables)
5 names 613 births
N EY1 SH AA0 N

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 N EY1 SH 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.