Ontario

boys:

870 births since 1967

#3717 (19th percentile)

overall:

870 births since 1967

#6869 (11th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1967 2022 19672022

Key Statistics

Total Births
870
Peak Births
35
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1967
Peak Percentile
4.0%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#627
Current Rank
#922
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ontario

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Ontario. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 53.5% confident that Ontario is pronounced as ahn-TEH-ree-oh. The next most likely pronunciation is ahn-TEH-ree-OH, at 20.9% confidence.

ahn-TEH-ree-oh (4 syllables)
Verified
53.5% confidence
AA0 N T EH1 R IY0 OW0
ahn-TEH-ree-OH (4 syllables)
20.9% confidence
AA0 N T EH1 R IY0 OW1
awn-TEH-ree-oh (4 syllables)
18.6% confidence
AO0 N T EH1 R IY0 OW0
uhn-TEH-ree-oh (4 syllables)
7.0% confidence
AH0 N T EH1 R IY0 OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

an-TEH-ree-oh (4 syllables)
3 names 363 births
AE0 N T EH1 R IY0 OW0
ahn-TAH-ree-oh (4 syllables)
1 name 166 births
AA0 N T AA1 R IY0 OW0

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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 AA0 N T EH1 R IY0 OW0) 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.