Merlie

girls:

261 births since 1897

#5455 (5th percentile)

overall:

261 births since 1897

#7478 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1897 1948 18971948

Key Statistics

Total Births
261
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1921
First Recorded
1897
Peak Percentile
1.7%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#324
Current Rank
#686
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Merlie

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Merlie. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Merlie is pronounced as MER-lee.

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MER-lee (2 syllables)
100.0% confidence
M ER1 L IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

mer-EE-lee (3 syllables)
5 names 8.8k births
M ER0 IY1 L IY0
mer-EH-lee (3 syllables)
5 names 4k births
M ER0 EH1 L IY0

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 ER1 L IY0) 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.