girls:
83 births since 2000
#5633 (1st percentile)
boys:
6 births since 2021
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
89 births since 2000
#7650 (1st percentile)
The name Prayer is the #7,650 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 89 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 1.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,633 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 83 births since 2000. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 2021.
Prayer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (2000 for girls and 2021 for boys). Birth data for Prayer is available in 12 out of the 24 years between 2000 and 2023 (12 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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 Prayer has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 93.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Prayer reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #937) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Prayer ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 40.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Prayer reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #929) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Prayer".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Prayer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.5% confident that Prayer is pronounced as PRAY-er, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is prair, at 22.6% confidence, with 1 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 P R EY1 ER0) 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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