Ruffin

boys:

555 births since 1886

#4031 (12th percentile)

overall:

555 births since 1886

#7184 (7th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1886 2013 18862013

Key Statistics

Total Births
555
Peak Births
19
Peak Year
1916
First Recorded
1886
Peak Percentile
2.8%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#210
Current Rank
#888
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Ruffin

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ruffin. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 83.3% confident that Ruffin is pronounced as RUH-fihn. The next most likely pronunciation is ROO-fihn, at 11.9% confidence.

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83.3%
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RUH-fihn (2 syllables)
Verified
83.3% confidence
R AH1 F IH0 N
ROO-fihn (2 syllables)
11.9% confidence
R UH1 F IH0 N
RUH-fuhn (2 syllables)
4.8% confidence
R AH1 F AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

RUH-vuhn (2 syllables)
1 name 231 births
R AH1 V AH0 N

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RA-fuhn (2 syllables)
2 names 210 births
R AE1 F AH0 N

Names with this pronunciation:

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 AH1 F IH0 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.