Washington

boys:

2.6k births since 1880

#2456 (46th percentile)

overall:

2.6k births since 1880

#5229 (32nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,635
Peak Births
60
Peak Year
1884
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
11.4%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#171
Current Rank
#908
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Washington

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Washington. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 59.2% confident that Washington is pronounced as WAHSH-shihngt-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is WAWSH-shihngt-uhn, at 16.3% confidence.

WAHSH-shihngt-uhn (3 syllables)
59.2% confidence
W AA1 SH IH0 N G T AH0 N
WAWSH-shihngt-uhn (3 syllables)
16.3% confidence
W AO1 SH IH0 N G T AH0 N
WAH-shihng-tuhn (3 syllables)
Verified
12.2% confidence
W AA1 SH IH0 NG T AH0 N
WAW-shihng-tuhn (3 syllables)
Verified
12.2% confidence
W AO1 SH IH0 NG T AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Washington. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Washington, please vote using the thumbs up button.

WAHT-suhn (2 syllables)
3 names 6.3k births
W AA1 T S AH0 N
vuh-SHAHN (2 syllables)
5 names 1.7k births
V AH0 SH AA1 N

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 W AA1 SH IH0 N G T 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.