Marion

girls:

189k births since 1880

#204 (96th percentile)

boys:

72.4k births since 1880

#386 (92nd percentile)

overall:

261.4k births since 1880

#303 (96th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
189,015
Peak Births
6,047
Peak Year
1922
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
93.1%
Current Percentile
12.6%
Peak Rank
#42
Current Rank
#828
Female statistics
Total Births
72,377
Peak Births
1,716
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
81.6%
Current Percentile
5.9%
Peak Rank
#74
Current Rank
#857
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Marion

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Marion. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 67.8% confident that Marion is pronounced as MEH-ree-uhn. The next most likely pronunciation is MAIR-yuhn, at 16.9% confidence.

MAIR-yuhn (2 syllables)
16.9% confidence
M EH1 R Y AH0 N
MA-ree-uhn (3 syllables)
6.8% confidence
M AE1 R IY0 AH0 N

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

meh-ree-AN (3 syllables)
6 names 142.3k births
M EH0 R IY0 AE1 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 IY0 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.