Merrill

girls:

2.1k births since 1905

#3776 (34th percentile)

boys:

13k births since 1880

#1019 (78th percentile)

overall:

15k births since 1880

#2139 (72nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
2,062
Peak Births
52
Peak Year
1950
First Recorded
1905
Peak Percentile
7.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#355
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
12,968
Peak Births
305
Peak Year
1919
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
43.8%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#183
Current Rank
#909
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Merrill

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

Our model is 66.7% confident that Merrill is pronounced as MEH-ruhl. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-rihl, at 33.3% confidence.

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MEH-rihl (2 syllables)
33.3% confidence
M EH1 R IH0 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

MEH-rehl (2 syllables)
2 names 360 births
M EH1 R EH0 L

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meh-ruhl (2 syllables)
1 name 203 births
M EH0 R AH0 L

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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 AH0 L) 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.