Merlinda

girls:

530 births since 1931

#5186 (9th percentile)

overall:

530 births since 1931

#7209 (7th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1931 2009 19312009

Key Statistics

Total Births
530
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
1964
First Recorded
1931
Peak Percentile
2.2%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#582
Current Rank
#958
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Merlinda

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Merlinda. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 90.0% confident that Merlinda is pronounced as mer-LIHN-duh. The next most likely pronunciation is MER-lihn-duh, at 7.5% confidence.

mer-LIHN-duh (3 syllables)
90.0% confidence
M ER0 L IH1 N D AH0
MER-lihn-duh (3 syllables)
7.5% confidence
M ER1 L IH0 N D AH0
mer-lihn-duh (3 syllables)
2.5% confidence
M ER0 L IH0 N D AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

mahr-LIHN-duh (3 syllables)
2 names 544 births
M AA0 R L IH1 N D AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

mihr-LIHN-duh (3 syllables)
1 name 5 births
M IH0 R L IH1 N D AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

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 L IH1 N D 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.