Sufyan

boys:

537 births since 1987

#4049 (12th percentile)

overall:

537 births since 1987

#7202 (7th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Sufyan is the #7,202 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 537 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 6.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,049 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 537 births since 1987.

Sufyan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (first recorded for boys in 1987). Birth data for Sufyan is available in 29 out of the 37 years between 1987 and 2023. 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.

For boys, Sufyan reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #890) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sufyan ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 47.2% of its peak share of births.

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

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Key Statistics

Total Births
537
Peak Births
39
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1987
Peak Percentile
3.7%
Current Percentile
1.4%
Peak Rank
#890
Current Rank
#898
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sufyan

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Sufyan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 38.2% confident that Sufyan is pronounced as SUE-fyuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sue-FYAHN, at 20.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.

SUE-fyuhn (2 syllables)
38.2% confidence
S UW1 F Y AH0 N
sue-FYAHN (2 syllables)
20.6% confidence
S UW0 F Y AA1 N
SUE-fyan (2 syllables)
17.6% confidence
S UW1 F Y AE0 N
SUE-fyahn (2 syllables)
11.8% confidence
S UW1 F Y AA0 N
SOO-fyan (2 syllables)
5.9% confidence
S UH1 F Y AE0 N
SUE-FYAHN (2 syllables)
5.9% confidence
S UW1 F Y AA1 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 UW1 F Y AH0 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.

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