Vahan

boys:

199 births since 1917

#4387 (4th percentile)

overall:

199 births since 1917

#7540 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Vahan is the #7,540 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 199 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 2.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,387 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 199 births since 1917.

Vahan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (first recorded for boys in 1917). Birth data for Vahan is available in 31 out of the 107 years between 1917 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, Vahan reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #751) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Despite a peak around 2020, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Vahan ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 55.0% of its peak share of births.

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

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Key Statistics

Total Births
199
Peak Births
9
Peak Year
1989
First Recorded
1917
Peak Percentile
0.8%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#751
Current Rank
#909
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Vahan

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Vahan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 32.4% confident that Vahan is pronounced as VAH-huhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is vah-HAHN, at 29.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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VAH-huhn (2 syllables)
32.4% confidence
V AA1 HH AH0 N
vah-HAHN (2 syllables)
29.4% confidence
V AA0 HH AA1 N
vuh-HUHN (2 syllables)
8.8% confidence
V AH0 HH AH1 N
VAH-hahn (2 syllables)
8.8% confidence
V AA1 HH AA0 N
vuh-HAHN (2 syllables)
8.8% confidence
V AH0 HH AA1 N
vuh-HAN (2 syllables)
5.9% confidence
V AH0 HH AE1 N
vuh-hahn (2 syllables)
5.9% confidence
V AH0 HH AA0 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 V AA1 HH 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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