boys:
15k births since 1880
#954 (79th percentile)
overall:
15k births since 1880
#2141 (72nd percentile)
The name Sanford is the #2,141 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 15,019 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 72.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 72.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #954 (79.2% percentile) for all time with 15,019 births since 1880.
Sanford has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For boys, Sanford reached its peak popularity in 1929, achieving the 45.1% percentile (ranked #292) with 284 births per million. The name was most common in 1929, with 284 births per million (ranked 45.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2013, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sanford ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sanford".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sanford. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 89.7% confident that Sanford is pronounced as SAN-ferd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is san-ferd, at 10.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S AE1 N F ER0 D) 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.
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