Welles

girls:

10 births since 2019

#5706 (0th percentile)

boys:

396 births since 1915

#4190 (9th percentile)

overall:

406 births since 1915

#7333 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1915 2023 19152023

Key Statistics

Total Births
10
Peak Births
5
Peak Year
2020
First Recorded
2019
Peak Percentile
0.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#940
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
396
Peak Births
56
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
5.5%
Current Percentile
2.9%
Peak Rank
#503
Current Rank
#885
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Welles

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Welles. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Welles is pronounced as wehlz.

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wehlz (1 syllable)
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100.0% confidence
W EH1 L Z

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

WIH-lihs (2 syllables)
5 names 53.2k births
W IH1 L IH0 S
WIH-luhs (2 syllables)
4 names 53.1k births
W IH1 L AH0 S

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 EH1 L Z) 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.