girls:
12k births since 1880
#1433 (75th percentile)
boys:
38 births since 1971
#4548 (1st percentile)
overall:
12k births since 1880
#2398 (69th percentile)
The name Vida is the #2,398 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 12,036 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 69.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 69.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,433 (74.9% percentile) for all time with 11,998 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,548 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1971.
Vida has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1971 for boys).
The name Vida has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Vida reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 33.4% percentile (ranked #398) with 176 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 341 births per million (ranked 25.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2002, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Vida ranks #723 for girls (23.7% percentile) with 131 births per million, which is 38.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Vida reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #651) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1972, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1975.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Vida".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Vida", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 14 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Veda" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Veda..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Vida. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 72.7% confident that Vida is pronounced as VEE-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is VAI-duh, at 27.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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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 IY1 D 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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