Whitaker

girls:

11 births since 2014

#5705 (0th percentile)

boys:

716 births since 1949

#3871 (16th percentile)

overall:

727 births since 1949

#7012 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1949 2023 19492023

Key Statistics

Total Births
11
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
2014
Peak Percentile
0.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#957
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
716
Peak Births
64
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1949
Peak Percentile
6.4%
Current Percentile
4.7%
Peak Rank
#586
Current Rank
#868
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Whitaker

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Whitaker. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 72.9% confident that Whitaker is pronounced as WIH-tuh-ker. The next most likely pronunciation is HWIH-tuh-ker, at 27.1% confidence.

WIH-tuh-ker (3 syllables)
Verified
72.9% confidence
W IH1 T AH0 K ER0
HWIH-tuh-ker (3 syllables)
Verified
27.1% confidence
HH W IH1 T AH0 K ER0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

VIHK-ter (2 syllables)
6 names 332.2k births
V IH1 K T ER0
vihk-ter (2 syllables)
2 names 328.8k births
V IH0 K T ER0

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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 IH1 T AH0 K ER0) 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.