girls:
13 births since 2015
#5703 (0th percentile)
boys:
49 births since 1915
#4537 (1st percentile)
overall:
62 births since 1915
#7677 (1st percentile)
The name Pendleton is the #7,677 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 62 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 0.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,537 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 49 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,703 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 13 births since 2015.
Pendleton first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Pendleton is available in 10 out of the 107 years between 1915 and 2021 (8 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Pendleton has been given predominantly to boys, with 79.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2021, 0.0% of babies named Pendleton were boys.
For boys, Pendleton reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #551) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1924, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Pendleton reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #958) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pendleton".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Pendleton. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.5% confident that Pendleton is pronounced as PEHN-duhl-tuhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PEHND-ltuhn, at 12.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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