Southern

girls:

95 births since 2007

#5621 (2nd percentile)

boys:

47 births since 1923

#4539 (1st percentile)

overall:

142 births since 1923

#7597 (2nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1923 2023 19232023

Key Statistics

Total Births
95
Peak Births
12
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
2007
Peak Percentile
0.7%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#933
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics
Total Births
47
Peak Births
10
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1923
Peak Percentile
0.5%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#550
Current Rank
#906
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Southern

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Southern. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 87.5% confident that Southern is pronounced as SUH-thern. The next most likely pronunciation is SUH-dern, at 12.5% confidence.

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87.5%
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SUH-thern (2 syllables)
Verified
87.5% confidence
S AH1 DH ER0 N
SUH-dern (2 syllables)
12.5% confidence
S AH1 D ER0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

suh-THUH-nuh (3 syllables)
1 name 217 births
S AH0 DH AH1 N AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

SUH-dan (2 syllables)
1 name 42 births
S AH1 D AE0 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 S AH1 DH ER0 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.