Pharrell

boys:

440 births since 2003

#4146 (10th percentile)

overall:

440 births since 2003

#7299 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

2003 2023 20032023

Key Statistics

Total Births
440
Peak Births
67
Peak Year
2003
First Recorded
2003
Peak Percentile
7.5%
Current Percentile
1.2%
Peak Rank
#763
Current Rank
#900
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Pharrell

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

Our model is 58.8% confident that Pharrell is pronounced as fer-EHL. The next most likely pronunciation is fuh-REHL, at 26.5% confidence.

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fer-EHL (2 syllables)
58.8% confidence
F ER0 EH1 L
fuh-REHL (2 syllables)
26.5% confidence
F AH0 R EH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

FER-uhl (2 syllables)
5 names 7.9k births
F ER1 AH0 L
FEH-rihl (2 syllables)
6 names 6.9k births
F EH1 R IH0 L

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 F ER0 EH1 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.