Yakima

girls:

261 births since 1971

#5455 (5th percentile)

overall:

261 births since 1971

#7478 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1971 2008 19712008

Key Statistics

Total Births
261
Peak Births
23
Peak Year
1980
First Recorded
1971
Peak Percentile
2.3%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#736
Current Rank
#984
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Yakima

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Yakima. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 34.9% confident that Yakima is pronounced as YA-kih-muh. The next most likely pronunciation is yuh-KEE-muh, at 32.6% confidence.

YA-kih-muh (3 syllables)
Verified
34.9% confidence
Y AE1 K IH0 M AH0
yuh-KEE-muh (3 syllables)
32.6% confidence
Y AH0 K IY1 M AH0
YA-kuh-mah (3 syllables)
14.0% confidence
Y AE1 K AH0 M AA0
yah-KEE-muh (3 syllables)
7.0% confidence
Y AA0 K IY1 M AH0
YAH-kee-muh (3 syllables)
7.0% confidence
Y AA1 K IY0 M AH0
YA-kuh-muh (3 syllables)
4.7% confidence
Y AE1 K AH0 M AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

heek-muh (2 syllables)
2 names 102 births
HH IY0 K M AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

juh-KEE-muh (3 syllables)
2 names 63 births
JH AH0 K IY1 M AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

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 Y AE1 K IH0 M AH0) 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.