girls:
85 births since 1920
#5631 (1st percentile)
boys:
31.1k births since 1880
#655 (86th percentile)
overall:
31.2k births since 1880
#1439 (81st percentile)
The name Stewart is the #1,439 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 31,231 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 81.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #655 (85.7% percentile) for all time with 31,146 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,631 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 85 births since 1920.
Stewart has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1920 for girls).
The name Stewart has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Stewart reached its peak popularity in 1955, achieving the 56.6% percentile (ranked #278) with 301 births per million. The name was most common in 1898, with 333 births per million (ranked 17.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Stewart ranks #896 for boys (1.6% percentile) with 11 births per million, which is 3.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Stewart reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #805) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stewart".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Stewart", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 2 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Stuart" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Stuart..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Stewart. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.2% confident that Stewart is pronounced as STUE-ert, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STYUE-ert, at 17.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 T UW1 ER0 T) 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.
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