girls:
422 births since 1891
#5294 (7th percentile)
boys:
81.6k births since 1880
#356 (92nd percentile)
overall:
82k births since 1880
#786 (90th percentile)
The name Ross is the #786 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 82,032 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #356 (92.3% percentile) for all time with 81,610 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,294 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 422 births since 1891.
Ross has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1891 for girls).
The name Ross has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ross reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 79.3% percentile (ranked #145) with 979 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 979 births per million (ranked 79.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ross ranks #801 for boys (12.1% percentile) with 63 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ross reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #803) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ross ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 11.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ross".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ross. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Ross is pronounced as raws, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is rahs, at 33.3% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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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 AO1 S) 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.
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