girls:
23 births since 1912
#5693 (0th percentile)
boys:
147 births since 1911
#4439 (3rd percentile)
overall:
170 births since 1911
#7569 (2nd percentile)
The name Welcome is the #7,569 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 170 recorded births since 1911. This represents the 2.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,439 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 147 births since 1911. For girls, it ranks #5,693 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 23 births since 1912.
Welcome first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1911 (1911 for boys and 1912 for girls). Birth data for Welcome is available in 19 out of the 31 years between 1911 and 1941 (19 years for boys and 4 years for girls). 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.
The name Welcome has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.5% of all recorded births being male. In 1941, 100.0% of babies named Welcome were boys.
For boys, Welcome reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #495) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1941.
For girls, Welcome reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #591) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Welcome".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Welcome is pronounced as WEHL-kuhm, which has 2 syllables.
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