girls:
19 births since 2022
#5697 (0th percentile)
overall:
19 births since 2022
#7720 (0th percentile)
The name Pualena is the #7,720 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 19 recorded births since 2022. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 2022.
Pualena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2022 (first recorded for girls in 2022).
For girls, Pualena reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #953) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Currently, Pualena ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 92.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pualena".
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Our model has identified 10 different pronunciations for the name Pualena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.3% confident that Pualena is pronounced as pue-ah-LAY-nuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is pue-uh-LAY-nuh, at 24.3% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like P UW0 AA0 L EY1 N AH0) 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.
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