Marykay

girls:

930 births since 1940

#4786 (16th percentile)

overall:

930 births since 1940

#6809 (12th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1940 2023 19402023

Key Statistics

Total Births
930
Peak Births
72
Peak Year
1961
First Recorded
1940
Peak Percentile
8.5%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#585
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Marykay

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Marykay. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 69.2% confident that Marykay is pronounced as MEH-ree-KAY. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-ree-kay, at 30.8% confidence.

MEH-ree-KAY (3 syllables)
69.2% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 K EY1
MEH-ree-kay (3 syllables)
30.8% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 K EY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

MEH-rih-kay (3 syllables)
3 names 301 births
M EH1 R IH0 K EY0
MEH-rih-KAY (3 syllables)
3 names 301 births
M EH1 R IH0 K EY1

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 K EY1) 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.