Rochester

boys:

463 births since 1914

#4123 (10th percentile)

overall:

463 births since 1914

#7276 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1914 1971 19141971

Key Statistics

Total Births
463
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
1944
First Recorded
1914
Peak Percentile
3.1%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#455
Current Rank
#666
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Rochester

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

Our model is 47.3% confident that Rochester is pronounced as RAH-cheh-ster. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-CHEH-ster, at 40.0% confidence.

RAH-cheh-ster (3 syllables)
Verified
47.3% confidence
R AA1 CH EH0 S T ER0
RAH-CHEH-ster (3 syllables)
Verified
40.0% confidence
R AA1 CH EH1 S T ER0
RAH-chuh-ster (3 syllables)
7.3% confidence
R AA1 CH AH0 S T ER0
RAH-kuh-ster (3 syllables)
5.5% confidence
R AA1 K AH0 S T ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

ruh-TA-shuh (3 syllables)
1 name 80 births
R AH0 T AE1 SH AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

ruh-SHEH-tuh (3 syllables)
3 names 65 births
R AH0 SH EH1 T AH0

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 AA1 CH EH0 S T ER0) 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.