girls:
1k births since 1984
#4697 (18th percentile)
boys:
195.3k births since 1880
#185 (96th percentile)
overall:
196.3k births since 1880
#397 (95th percentile)
The name Wyatt is the #397 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 196,272 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #185 (96.0% percentile) for all time with 195,253 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,697 (17.8% percentile) for all time with 1,019 births since 1984.
Wyatt has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1984 for girls).
The name Wyatt has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wyatt reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 97.4% percentile (ranked #25) with 4,910 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 4,910 births per million (ranked 97.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Wyatt ranks #45 for boys (95.2% percentile) with 3,406 births per million, which is 69.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wyatt reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 10.8% percentile (ranked #847) with 57 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 57 births per million (ranked 10.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Wyatt ranks #872 for girls (7.9% percentile) with 46 births per million, which is 80.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wyatt".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wyatt. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wyatt is pronounced as WAI-uht, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like W AY1 AH0 T) 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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