Raven

girls:

43.3k births since 1941

#642 (89th percentile)

boys:

3.2k births since 1921

#2192 (52nd percentile)

overall:

46.6k births since 1921

#1128 (85th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1921 2023 19212023

Key Statistics

Total Births
43,309
Peak Births
2,285
Peak Year
1993
First Recorded
1941
Peak Percentile
84.3%
Current Percentile
64.4%
Peak Rank
#137
Current Rank
#338
Female statistics
Total Births
3,243
Peak Births
188
Peak Year
1999
First Recorded
1921
Peak Percentile
22.6%
Current Percentile
4.1%
Peak Rank
#524
Current Rank
#874
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Raven

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Raven. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 83.3% confident that Raven is pronounced as RAY-vuhn. The next most likely pronunciation is RAY-vihn, at 16.7% confidence.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

RA-vihn (2 syllables)
3 names 3.9k births
R AE1 V IH0 N
RAY-vahn (2 syllables)
4 names 3.4k births
R EY1 V AA0 N

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 EY1 V AH0 N) 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.