Marilyn

girls:

373k births since 1899

#98 (98th percentile)

boys:

1.1k births since 1922

#3530 (23rd percentile)

overall:

374k births since 1899

#191 (98th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1899 2023 18992023

Key Statistics

Total Births
372,981
Peak Births
11,881
Peak Year
1937
First Recorded
1899
Peak Percentile
97.9%
Current Percentile
37.1%
Peak Rank
#13
Current Rank
#596
Female statistics
Total Births
1,066
Peak Births
45
Peak Year
1937
First Recorded
1922
Peak Percentile
7.6%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#484
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Marilyn

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Marilyn. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 37.0% confident that Marilyn is pronounced as MEH-ruh-lihn. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-ruh-lihn, at 28.3% confidence.

MEH-ruh-luhn (3 syllables)
Verified
15.2% confidence
M EH1 R AH0 L AH0 N
MAH-ree-lihn (3 syllables)
4.3% confidence
M AA1 R IY0 L IH0 N
MA-rih-lihn (3 syllables)
4.3% confidence
M AE1 R IH0 L IH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

MEH-rih-LIHN (3 syllables)
8 names 2.9k births
M EH1 R IH0 L IH1 N
MEH-rih-luhn (3 syllables)
5 names 2.6k births
M EH1 R IH0 L AH0 N

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 M EH1 R AH0 L IH0 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.