girls:
5 births since 1922
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
8.1k births since 1880
#1306 (72nd percentile)
overall:
8.1k births since 1880
#3000 (61st percentile)
The name Newton is the #3,000 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 8,139 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 61.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 61.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,306 (71.5% percentile) for all time with 8,134 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1922.
Newton has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1922 for girls).
The name Newton has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Newton reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 35.6% percentile (ranked #345) with 205 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 591 births per million (ranked 31.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Newton ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 2.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Newton reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #597) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Newton".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Newton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Newton is pronounced as NUE-tuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NYUE-tuhn, at 9.8% 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 N UW1 T 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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