Nigeria

girls:

805 births since 1975

#4911 (14th percentile)

overall:

805 births since 1975

#6934 (10th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1975 2022 19752022

Key Statistics

Total Births
805
Peak Births
58
Peak Year
2000
First Recorded
1975
Peak Percentile
5.9%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#752
Current Rank
#953
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Nigeria

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nigeria. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 56.5% confident that Nigeria is pronounced as nai-JIH-ree-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is nai-JEE-ree-uh, at 28.3% confidence.

nai-JIH-ree-uh (4 syllables)
Verified
56.5% confidence
N AY0 JH IH1 R IY0 AH0
nai-JEE-ree-uh (4 syllables)
28.3% confidence
N AY0 JH IY1 R IY0 AH0
NAI-JIH-ree-uh (4 syllables)
15.2% confidence
N AY1 JH IH1 R IY0 AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

nih-JIH-ree-uh (4 syllables)
3 names 192 births
N IH0 JH IH1 R IY0 AH0
nai-JEH-ree-uh (4 syllables)
2 names 21 births
N AY0 JH EH1 R IY0 AH0

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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 AY0 JH IH1 R IY0 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.