Rigel

girls:

10 births since 1980

#5706 (0th percentile)

boys:

598 births since 1976

#3988 (13th percentile)

overall:

608 births since 1976

#7131 (8th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1976 2023 19762023

Key Statistics

Total Births
10
Peak Births
5
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
0.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#785
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
598
Peak Births
34
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
1976
Peak Percentile
3.2%
Current Percentile
1.9%
Peak Rank
#655
Current Rank
#894
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Rigel

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Rigel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 47.5% confident that Rigel is pronounced as RAI-juhl. The next most likely pronunciation is RAI-jehl, at 25.0% confidence.

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RAI-juhl (2 syllables)
Verified
47.5% confidence
R AY1 JH AH0 L
RAI-jehl (2 syllables)
25.0% confidence
R AY1 JH EH0 L
REE-juhl (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
R IY1 JH AH0 L
RAI-guhl (2 syllables)
10.0% confidence
R AY1 G AH0 L
RIH-juhl (2 syllables)
7.5% confidence
R IH1 JH AH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

RAY-CHEHL (2 syllables)
6 names 1.4k births
R EY1 CH EH1 L
RAY-chehl (2 syllables)
9 names 1.1k births
R EY1 CH EH0 L

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 AY1 JH AH0 L) 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.