Minoru

boys:

675 births since 1912

#3912 (15th percentile)

overall:

675 births since 1912

#7064 (9th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1912 1939 19121939

Key Statistics

Total Births
675
Peak Births
50
Peak Year
1920
First Recorded
1912
Peak Percentile
8.2%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#389
Current Rank
#516
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Minoru

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

Our model is 55.3% confident that Minoru is pronounced as mih-NAW-rue. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-NOH-rue, at 18.4% confidence.

mih-NAW-rue (3 syllables)
Verified
55.3% confidence
M IH0 N AO1 R UW0
mee-NOH-rue (3 syllables)
18.4% confidence
M IY0 N OW1 R UW0
mih-NOH-rue (3 syllables)
15.8% confidence
M IH0 N OW1 R UW0
MIH-ner-ue (3 syllables)
5.3% confidence
M IH1 N ER0 UW0
mee-NAW-rue (3 syllables)
5.3% confidence
M IY0 N AO1 R UW0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

MAH-nroh (2 syllables)
2 names 22.9k births
M AA1 N R OW0

Names with this pronunciation:

muh-NUER (2 syllables)
1 name 909 births
M AH0 N UW1 R

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 IH0 N AO1 R UW0) 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.