boys:
1.5k births since 1979
#3129 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1979
#6220 (20th percentile)
The name Usman is the #6,220 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,525 recorded births since 1979. This represents the 19.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,129 (31.7% percentile) for all time with 1,525 births since 1979.
Usman first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1979 (first recorded for boys in 1979).
For boys, Usman reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 10.0% percentile (ranked #832) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 52 births per million (ranked 10.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Usman ranks #830 for boys (8.9% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 90.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Usman".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Usman. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 21.1% confident that Usman is pronounced as UE-smuhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is oo-SMAHN, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like UW1 S M 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.
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