girls:
987.6k births since 1881
#15 (100th percentile)
boys:
2.8k births since 1935
#2387 (48th percentile)
overall:
990.4k births since 1881
#43 (99th percentile)
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Karen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Karen. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.2% confident that Karen is pronounced as KEH-ruhn. The next most likely pronunciation is KA-ruhn, at 28.8% confidence.
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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 K EH1 R AH0 N) 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.