Cheryl (53 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Cheryl

Our model has identified 53 different spellings of Cheryl that are grouped together because they share at least one of 6 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 44.9% confident that Cheryl is pronounced as SHEH-ruhl. There are 50 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Cheryl is CHEH-ruhl, at 36.7% confidence. There are 16 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

SHEH-ruhl

96.2%

560,227

100.00%

44.9%

SHEH-rihl

50.9%

472,549

84.35%

4.1%

CHEH-ruhl

32.1%

451,902

80.66%

36.7%

CHEH-rihl

20.8%

446,113

79.63%

4.1%

CHEH-reel

17.0%

450,640

80.44%

4.1%

shairl

5.7%

441,669

78.84%

6.1%

SHEH-ruhl (2 syllables)

51 names (96.2% of variations) 100.00% of births

SH EH1 R AH0 L

Cheryl

Verified

Confidence: 44.9%

Sheryl

Verified

Confidence: 100.0%

Confidence: 37.2%

Confidence: 42.9%

Confidence: 62.2%

Verified

Confidence: 29.7%

Confidence: 38.5%

Confidence: 52.8%

Confidence: 40.0%

Confidence: 8.1%

CHEH-ruhl (2 syllables)

17 names (32.1% of variations) 80.66% of births

CH EH1 R AH0 L

Confidence: 36.7%

Confidence: 8.6%

Confidence: 16.7%

Confidence: 59.5%

Confidence: 7.5%

Confidence: 10.5%

Confidence: 5.6%

Confidence: 18.2%

Confidence: 35.0%

Confidence: 28.6%

shairl (1 syllable)

3 names (5.7% of variations) 78.84% of births

SH EH1 R L

Cheryl

Confidence: 6.1%

Sheryle

Confidence: 8.6%

Sherrl

Confidence: 19.4%

SHEH-rihl (2 syllables)

27 names (50.9% of variations) 84.35% of births

SH EH1 R IH0 L

Cheryl

Confidence: 4.1%

Sherrill

Verified

Confidence: 48.8%

Confidence: 17.1%

Confidence: 18.9%

Confidence: 17.9%

Confidence: 8.3%

Confidence: 52.5%

Confidence: 40.0%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 60.0%

CHEH-rihl (2 syllables)

11 names (20.8% of variations) 79.63% of births

CH EH1 R IH0 L

Confidence: 4.1%

Confidence: 5.6%

Confidence: 24.3%

Confidence: 5.0%

Confidence: 26.3%

Confidence: 36.1%

Confidence: 57.1%

Confidence: 37.8%

Confidence: 28.1%

Confidence: 2.8%

CHEH-reel (2 syllables)

9 names (17.0% of variations) 80.44% of births

CH EH1 R IY0 L

Confidence: 4.1%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 11.1%

Confidence: 8.1%

Confidence: 8.3%

Confidence: 7.7%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 16.2%

Confidence: 31.3%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

sheh-rihl (2 syllables)

4 names 12.7k births

SH EH0 R IH0 L

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SHEH-rehl (2 syllables)

7 names 6.4k births

SH EH1 R EH0 L

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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 SH EH1 R AH0 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. 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.