girls:
86 births since 1915
#5630 (1st percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1880
#2448 (47th percentile)
overall:
2.7k births since 1880
#5153 (33rd percentile)
The name Wm is the #5,153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,736 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 33.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,448 (46.6% percentile) for all time with 2,650 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,630 (1.5% percentile) for all time with 86 births since 1915.
Wm has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls). Birth data for Wm is available in 101 out of the 113 years between 1880 and 1992 (101 years for boys and 11 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 Wm has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wm reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 16.0% percentile (ranked #422) with 92 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 226 births per million (ranked 13.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1992.
For girls, Wm reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #600) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1920, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wm".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Wm. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.9% confident that Wm is pronounced as DUH-buhl-yuem, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is wihm, at 23.7% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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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 D AH1 B AH0 L Y UW0 M) 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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