girls:
1.4k births since 1973
#4337 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1973
#6352 (18th percentile)
The name Sicily is the #6,352 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,391 recorded births since 1973. This represents the 17.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,337 (24.1% percentile) for all time with 1,391 births since 1973.
Sicily first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1973 (first recorded for girls in 1973). Birth data for Sicily is available in 47 out of the 51 years between 1973 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Sicily reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 7.1% percentile (ranked #897) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 35 births per million (ranked 7.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sicily ranks #905 for girls (4.4% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 75.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sicily".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Sicily. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.8% confident that Sicily is pronounced as SIH-suh-lee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SIH-sih-lee, at 13.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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