Akira (18 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Akira

Our model has identified 18 different spellings of Akira that are grouped together because they share at least one of 5 different pronunciations. If something seems off, you can help us improve our grouping algorithm by rating whether pronunciations are correct or incorrect for a given spelling.

The audio files on this page are organized by pronunciation. Click the play button next to each spelling to hear that pronunciation spoken aloud for a particular spelling.

Our model is 43.1% confident that Akira is pronounced as uh-KEE-ruh. There are 17 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Akira is uh-KIH-ruh, at 29.3% confidence. There are 16 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

uh-KEE-ruh

100.0%

11,364

100.00%

43.1%

uh-KIH-ruh

94.4%

11,127

97.91%

29.3%

ah-KIH-ruh

50.0%

10,498

92.38%

12.1%

ah-KEE-ruh

44.4%

9,953

87.58%

10.3%

AH-kih-ruh

33.3%

9,925

87.34%

5.2%

uh-KEE-ruh (3 syllables)

18 names (100.0% of variations)

AH0 K IY1 R AH0

Akira

Verified

Confidence: 43.1%

Confidence: 10.9%

Confidence: 34.2%

Confidence: 52.6%

Confidence: 21.6%

Confidence: 50.0%

Confidence: 37.8%

Confidence: 17.5%

Confidence: 30.2%

Confidence: 13.2%

uh-KIH-ruh (3 syllables)

17 names (94.4% of variations) 97.91% of births

AH0 K IH1 R AH0

Confidence: 29.3%

Confidence: 37.0%

Confidence: 28.9%

Confidence: 36.8%

Confidence: 16.2%

Confidence: 54.1%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 25.6%

Confidence: 7.9%

Confidence: 19.5%

ah-KIH-ruh (3 syllables)

9 names (50.0% of variations) 92.38% of births

AA0 K IH1 R AH0

Confidence: 12.1%

Confidence: 8.7%

Confidence: 26.3%

Confidence: 8.1%

Confidence: 12.5%

Confidence: 31.7%

Confidence: 2.3%

Confidence: 28.2%

Confidence: 20.0%

ah-KEE-ruh (3 syllables)

8 names (44.4% of variations) 87.58% of births

AA0 K IY1 R AH0

Confidence: 10.3%

Confidence: 10.5%

Confidence: 22.2%

Confidence: 2.3%

Confidence: 10.8%

Confidence: 10.8%

Confidence: 43.2%

Confidence: 25.0%

AH-kih-ruh (3 syllables)

6 names (33.3% of variations) 87.34% of births

AA1 K IH0 R AH0

Confidence: 5.2%

Confidence: 6.5%

Confidence: 5.0%

Confidence: 7.3%

Confidence: 17.9%

Confidence: 12.5%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

uh-KAY-ruh (3 syllables)

2 names 267 births

AH0 K EY1 R AH0

Should "Akira" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Akeira 262 births

Akeyra 5 births

uh-KEE-er-uh (4 syllables)

3 names 256 births

AH0 K IY1 ER0 AH0

Should "Akira" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Akiera 237 births

Akierra 13 births

Akeara 6 births

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 AH0 K IY1 R 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. It's really hard to get a text-to-speech model to say names the way you want it to. And describing how vowels are emphasized in English is a bit of a mess.