girls:
5 births since 1979
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
119 births since 1972
#4467 (3rd percentile)
overall:
124 births since 1972
#7615 (2nd percentile)
The name Tehran is the #7,615 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 124 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,467 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1979.
Tehran first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1979 for girls). Birth data for Tehran is available in 16 out of the 40 years between 1972 and 2011 (16 years for boys and 1 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 Tehran has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Tehran reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 2.6% percentile (ranked #670) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
For girls, Tehran reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #786) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Tehran".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Tehran. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.5% confident that Tehran is pronounced as tehh-RAHN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is TAY-RAHN, at 17.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like T EH0 HH R 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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