Persephone

girls:

4.2k births since 1962

#2652 (54th percentile)

overall:

4.2k births since 1962

#4227 (45th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1962 2023 19622023

Key Statistics

Total Births
4,201
Peak Births
427
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1962
Peak Percentile
41.7%
Current Percentile
37.0%
Peak Rank
#559
Current Rank
#597
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Persephone

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Persephone. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 89.5% confident that Persephone is pronounced as per-SEH-fuh-nee, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is per-SUH-fuh-nee, at 10.5% confidence, with 4 syllables.

per-SEH-fuh-nee (4 syllables)
89.5% confidence
P ER0 S EH1 F AH0 N IY0
per-SUH-fuh-nee (4 syllables)
10.5% confidence
P ER0 S AH1 F AH0 N IY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

PRIHN-SEH-lee (3 syllables)
1 name 5 births
P R IH1 N S EH1 L IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

PRIHN-SEH-lai-uh (4 syllables)
1 name 5 births
P R IH1 N S EH1 L AY2 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 P ER0 S EH1 F AH0 N 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.