girls:
5 births since 1957
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1884
#3535 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1884
#6673 (14th percentile)
The name Son is the #6,673 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,066 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 13.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,535 (22.9% percentile) for all time with 1,061 births since 1884. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1957.
Son first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for boys and 1957 for girls). Birth data for Son is available in 84 out of the 136 years between 1884 and 2019 (83 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Son has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Son reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #236) with 136 births per million. The name was most common in 1901, with 138 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2019.
For girls, Son reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #768) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1957.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Son".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Son. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Son is pronounced as suhn, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sahn, at 11.6% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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