Special

girls:

344 births since 1980

#5372 (6th percentile)

overall:

344 births since 1980

#7395 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1980 2020 19802020

Key Statistics

Total Births
344
Peak Births
23
Peak Year
1996
First Recorded
1980
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#774
Current Rank
#939
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Special

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Special. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Special is pronounced as SPEH-shuhl.

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100.0%
SPEH-shuhl (2 syllables)
Verified
100.0% confidence
S P EH1 SH AH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

PA-shuhl (2 syllables)
1 name 587 births
P AE1 SH AH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

SA-chuhl (2 syllables)
2 names 553 births
S AE1 CH AH0 L

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 P EH1 SH AH0 L) 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.