girls:
42 births since 2015
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
384 births since 1880
#4202 (8th percentile)
overall:
426 births since 1880
#7313 (5th percentile)
The name Worthy is the #7,313 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 426 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 5.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,202 (8.3% percentile) for all time with 384 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 2015.
Worthy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 2015 for girls). Birth data for Worthy is available in 52 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (49 years for boys and 5 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 Worthy has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 0.0% of babies named Worthy were boys. Interestingly, until around 2015, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1880 to 2014), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (71.2% girls from 2015 to 2023).
For boys, Worthy reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #544) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Worthy reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #940) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). In recent years, the popularity of this name for girls has remained relatively stable. Currently, Worthy is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #940 (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Worthy".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Worthy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.8% confident that Worthy is pronounced as WER-thee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WER-thee, at 30.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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