Primitivo

boys:

740 births since 1915

#3847 (16th percentile)

overall:

740 births since 1915

#6999 (10th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Primitivo is the #6,999 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 740 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,847 (16.1% percentile) for all time with 740 births since 1915.

Primitivo first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for boys in 1915). Birth data for Primitivo is available in 85 out of the 98 years between 1915 and 2012. 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.

For boys, Primitivo reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #666) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.

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

1915 2012 19152012

Key Statistics

Total Births
740
Peak Births
20
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
2.2%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#666
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Primitivo

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Primitivo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 40.6% confident that Primitivo is pronounced as prih-mih-TEE-voh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is prih-MEE-tee-voh, at 21.9% confidence, with 4 syllables.

prih-mih-TEE-voh (4 syllables)
40.6% confidence
P R IH0 M IH0 T IY1 V OW0
prih-MEE-tee-voh (4 syllables)
21.9% confidence
P R IH0 M IY1 T IY0 V OW0
prih-MIH-tee-voh (4 syllables)
12.5% confidence
P R IH0 M IH1 T IY0 V OW0
pree-mih-TEE-voh (4 syllables)
6.3% confidence
P R IY0 M IH0 T IY1 V OW0
prih-mee-TEE-voh (4 syllables)
6.3% confidence
P R IH2 M IY0 T IY1 V OW0
prih-MIH-tih-voh (4 syllables)
6.3% confidence
P R IH0 M IH1 T IH0 V OW0
pree-muh-TEE-voh (4 syllables)
6.3% confidence
P R IY0 M AH0 T IY1 V OW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 R IH0 M IH0 T IY1 V 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.

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