Raford

boys:

169 births since 1916

#4417 (4th percentile)

overall:

169 births since 1916

#7570 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1916 1982 19161982

Key Statistics

Total Births
169
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
1935
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
1.0%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#500
Current Rank
#691
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Raford

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Raford. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 57.9% confident that Raford is pronounced as RA-ferd. The next most likely pronunciation is RUH-ferd, at 23.7% confidence.

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RA-ferd (2 syllables)
57.9% confidence
R AE1 F ER0 D
RUH-ferd (2 syllables)
23.7% confidence
R AH1 F ER0 D
ruh-FORD (2 syllables)
10.5% confidence
R AH0 F AO1 R D
ruh-FERD (2 syllables)
7.9% confidence
R AH0 F ER1 D

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

RAY-ferd (2 syllables)
3 names 6.7k births
R EY1 F ER0 D
RAD-ferd (2 syllables)
1 name 1.2k births
R AE1 D F ER0 D

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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 R AE1 F ER0 D) 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.