Powell

girls:

6 births since 2016

#5710 (0th percentile)

boys:

1.5k births since 1883

#3180 (31st percentile)

overall:

1.5k births since 1883

#6273 (19th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1883 2023 18832023

Key Statistics

Total Births
6
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
2016
Peak Percentile
0.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#956
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
1,466
Peak Births
32
Peak Year
1919
First Recorded
1883
Peak Percentile
5.1%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#198
Current Rank
#906
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Powell

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

Our model is 75.7% confident that Powell is pronounced as POW-uhl. The next most likely pronunciation is POW-ehl, at 16.2% confidence.

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75.7%
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POW-uhl (2 syllables)
Verified
75.7% confidence
P AW1 AH0 L
POW-ehl (2 syllables)
16.2% confidence
P AW1 EH0 L
PAW-wuhl (2 syllables)
8.1% confidence
P AO1 W AH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

pawl (1 syllable)
6 names 1.4M births
P AO1 L
pow (1 syllable)
2 names 713 births
P AW1

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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 P AW1 AH0 L) 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.