Memphis

girls:

2.3k births since 1915

#3622 (37th percentile)

boys:

9.2k births since 1916

#1225 (73rd percentile)

overall:

11.5k births since 1915

#2456 (68th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1915 2023 19152023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,272
Peak Births
251
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
25.7%
Current Percentile
21.4%
Peak Rank
#559
Current Rank
#745
Female statistics
Total Births
9,245
Peak Births
767
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1916
Peak Percentile
58.8%
Current Percentile
51.6%
Peak Rank
#384
Current Rank
#441
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Memphis

Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Memphis. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 61.0% confident that Memphis is pronounced as MEHM-fihs. The next most likely pronunciation is MEHM-fuhs, at 10.2% confidence.

MEHM-fihs (2 syllables)
Verified
61.0% confidence
M EH1 M F IH0 S
MEHM-fuhs (2 syllables)
Verified
10.2% confidence
M EH1 M F AH0 S
MEHMP-fihs (2 syllables)
Verified
10.2% confidence
M EH1 M P F IH0 S
MEHMP-fuhs (2 syllables)
Verified
10.2% confidence
M EH1 M P F AH0 S
MEHM-fees (2 syllables)
8.5% confidence
M EH1 M F IY0 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

muh-THAY-uhs (3 syllables)
7 names 2.1k births
M AH0 TH EY1 AH0 S
ma-THAI-uhs (3 syllables)
5 names 303 births
M AE0 TH AY1 AH0 S

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 M F IH0 S) 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.