girls:
3.1k births since 1880
#3108 (46th percentile)
boys:
693 births since 1953
#3894 (15th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1880
#4457 (42nd percentile)
The name Nevada is the #4,457 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,804 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 42.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,108 (45.6% percentile) for all time with 3,111 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,894 (15.0% percentile) for all time with 693 births since 1953.
Nevada has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1953 for boys).
The name Nevada has been given predominantly to girls, with 81.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 77.2% of babies named Nevada were girls.
For girls, Nevada reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 7.3% percentile (ranked #551) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 156 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nevada ranks #908 for girls (4.1% percentile) with 25 births per million, which is 16.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nevada reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #767) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Nevada ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 47.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nevada".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Nevada. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.2% confident that Nevada is pronounced as nuh-VA-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is nuh-VAH-duh, at 35.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N AH0 V AE1 D AH0) 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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