Providence

girls:

707 births since 1905

#5009 (12th percentile)

overall:

707 births since 1905

#7032 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1905 2023 19052023

Key Statistics

Total Births
707
Peak Births
29
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1905
Peak Percentile
3.9%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#357
Current Rank
#945
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Providence

Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Providence. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 34.1% confident that Providence is pronounced as PRAH-vuh-duhns. The next most likely pronunciation is PRAH-vih-duhns, at 19.5% confidence.

PRAH-vuh-duhns (3 syllables)
Verified
34.1% confidence
P R AA1 V AH0 D AH0 N S
PRAH-vih-duhns (3 syllables)
19.5% confidence
P R AA1 V IH0 D AH0 N S
PRAW-vih-duhns (3 syllables)
12.2% confidence
P R AO1 V IH0 D AH0 N S
PRAH-vee-duhns (3 syllables)
12.2% confidence
P R AA1 V IY0 D AH0 N S
PRAH-vih-dehns (3 syllables)
9.8% confidence
P R AA1 V IH0 D EH0 N S
PRAW-vih-dehns (3 syllables)
4.9% confidence
P R AO1 V IH0 D EH0 N S
PRAH-vuh-dehns (3 syllables)
4.9% confidence
P R AA1 V AH0 D EH2 N S
PRAW-vuh-duhns (3 syllables)
2.4% confidence
P R AO1 V AH0 D AH0 N S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

PRUE-duhns (2 syllables)
2 names 6.1k births
P R UW1 D AH0 N S

Names with this pronunciation:

PRAH-vuh-dehn-syuh (4 syllables)
1 name 115 births
P R AA1 V AH0 D EH0 N S Y AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

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 AA1 V AH0 D AH0 N S) 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.