girls:
71 births since 1970
#5645 (1st percentile)
boys:
836 births since 1969
#3751 (18th percentile)
overall:
907 births since 1969
#6832 (12th percentile)
The name Taiwan is the #6,832 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 907 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 11.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,751 (18.2% percentile) for all time with 836 births since 1969. For girls, it ranks #5,645 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 71 births since 1970.
Taiwan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Taiwan is available in 53 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (52 years for boys and 10 years for girls). 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.
The name Taiwan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Taiwan reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 7.0% percentile (ranked #610) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 31 births per million (ranked 7.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Taiwan ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 10.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Taiwan reached its peak popularity in 1974, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #741) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1986.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Taiwan".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Taiwan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.1% confident that Taiwan is pronounced as TAI-WAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAI-wuhn, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T AY1 W AA1 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.
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