Retha

girls:

10.6k births since 1884

#1534 (73rd percentile)

overall:

10.6k births since 1884

#2572 (67th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1884 2014 18842014

Key Statistics

Total Births
10,597
Peak Births
252
Peak Year
1924
First Recorded
1884
Peak Percentile
35.8%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#237
Current Rank
#967
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Retha

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

Our model is 82.9% confident that Retha is pronounced as REE-thuh. The next most likely pronunciation is REH-thuh, at 17.1% confidence.

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82.9%
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REE-thuh (2 syllables)
82.9% confidence
R IY1 TH AH0
REH-thuh (2 syllables)
17.1% confidence
R EH1 TH AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

REE-uh-thuh (3 syllables)
1 name 2.6k births
R IY1 AH0 TH AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

ree-UH-thuh (3 syllables)
1 name 2.6k births
R IY0 AH1 TH 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 R IY1 TH 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.