A main source for the ages
Feelings words and "me" and "mine", by age: our count from Wordbank v3.4
MyHappyBub (analysis of Wordbank open data) ยท 2026
- Children
- About 10,000 toddler word lists
- Where
- The United States (children learning English)
- Ages
- 16 to 36 months
- How
- Our own count from parents' word lists in the open Wordbank collection
- What it found
- Half of toddlers said a feelings word (happy, sad, mad or scared) by about 23 months, and 9 in 10 by about 35 months. Half said "mine" by about 21 months and "me" by about 23 months.
- Limits
- Parents tick words on a list. Each month is a different group of children. American English only.