girls:
314 births since 1915
#5402 (5th percentile)
boys:
68.8k births since 1880
#397 (91st percentile)
overall:
69.1k births since 1880
#877 (89th percentile)
The name Stuart is the #877 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 69,103 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 88.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #397 (91.4% percentile) for all time with 68,789 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,402 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 314 births since 1915.
Stuart has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Stuart has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Stuart reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 75.8% percentile (ranked #162) with 882 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 957 births per million (ranked 75.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1987, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Stuart ranks #866 for boys (4.9% percentile) with 27 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Stuart reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #584) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1918, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1998.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Stuart".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Stuart. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 76.6% confident that Stuart is pronounced as STUE-ert, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is STYUE-ert, at 12.5% 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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