girls:
222.2k births since 1880
#179 (97th percentile)
boys:
834 births since 1916
#3753 (18th percentile)
overall:
223.1k births since 1880
#358 (95th percentile)
The name Veronica is the #358 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 223,060 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 95.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 95.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #179 (96.9% percentile) for all time with 222,226 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,753 (18.1% percentile) for all time with 834 births since 1916.
Veronica has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1916 for boys).
The name Veronica has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Veronica reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 91.5% percentile (ranked #67) with 2,412 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 2,698 births per million (ranked 90.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Veronica ranks #381 for girls (59.8% percentile) with 424 births per million, which is 15.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Veronica reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #710) with 23 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 23 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Veronica".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Veronica. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.8% confident that Veronica is pronounced as ver-AH-nih-kuh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ver-uh-NIH-kuh, at 12.2% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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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 ER0 AA1 N IH0 K AH0) 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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