girls:
78 births since 2005
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
3.8k births since 1880
#2004 (56th percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1880
#4407 (43rd percentile)
The name Price is the #4,407 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,896 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 43.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 43.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,004 (56.3% percentile) for all time with 3,818 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 2005.
Price has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2005 for girls).
The name Price has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 84.0% of babies named Price were boys.
For boys, Price reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 9.6% percentile (ranked #484) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 1896, with 155 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Price ranks #874 for boys (4.1% percentile) with 23 births per million, which is 14.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Price reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #952) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2018, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Price ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 82.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Price".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Price. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Price is pronounced as prais, which has 1 syllables.
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