Merina

girls:

332 births since 1965

#5384 (6th percentile)

overall:

332 births since 1965

#7407 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1965 2022 19652022

Key Statistics

Total Births
332
Peak Births
19
Peak Year
1998
First Recorded
1965
Peak Percentile
1.6%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#757
Current Rank
#958
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Merina

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

Our model is 37.5% confident that Merina is pronounced as mer-EE-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is meh-REE-nuh, at 35.0% confidence.

mer-EE-nuh (3 syllables)
37.5% confidence
M ER0 IY1 N AH0
meh-REE-nuh (3 syllables)
35.0% confidence
M EH0 R IY1 N AH0
MEH-ree-nuh (3 syllables)
10.0% confidence
M EH1 R IY0 N AH0
MEH-rih-nuh (3 syllables)
5.0% confidence
M EH1 R IH0 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

muh-REE-uh-nuh (4 syllables)
8 names 61.4k births
M AH0 R IY1 AH0 N AH0
mah-REE-uh-nuh (4 syllables)
5 names 43.8k births
M AA0 R IY1 AH0 N AH0

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 ER0 IY1 N AH0) 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.