Dylan (38 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Dylan

Our model has identified 38 different spellings of Dylan that are grouped together because they share at least one of 4 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 58.0% confident that Dylan is pronounced as DIH-luhn. There are 26 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Dylan is DAI-luhn, at 16.0% confidence. There are 11 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

DIH-luhn

71.1%

513,825

99.42%

58.0%

DAI-luhn

31.6%

433,888

83.96%

16.0%

DIH-lihn

31.6%

423,921

82.03%

12.0%

DEE-luhn

26.3%

426,788

82.58%

14.0%

DIH-luhn (2 syllables)

27 names (71.1% of variations) 99.42% of births

D IH1 L AH0 N

Dylan

Verified

Confidence: 58.0%

Dillon

Verified

Confidence: 97.8%

Dillan

Verified

Confidence: 100.0%

Dilan

Verified

Confidence: 75.0%

Confidence: 14.3%

Confidence: 100.0%

Confidence: 100.0%

Confidence: 88.9%

Confidence: 48.6%

Verified

Confidence: 100.0%

DAI-luhn (2 syllables)

12 names (31.6% of variations) 83.96% of births

D AY1 L AH0 N

Confidence: 16.0%

Confidence: 6.8%

Confidence: 85.7%

Confidence: 11.1%

Confidence: 51.4%

Confidence: 12.8%

Confidence: 50.0%

Confidence: 12.2%

Confidence: 12.2%

Confidence: 24.3%

DEE-luhn (2 syllables)

10 names (26.3% of variations) 82.58% of births

D IY1 L AH0 N

Confidence: 14.0%

Confidence: 9.1%

Confidence: 17.5%

Confidence: 26.3%

Confidence: 12.2%

Confidence: 11.8%

Confidence: 5.4%

Confidence: 21.6%

Confidence: 5.9%

Confidence: 44.8%

DIH-lihn (2 syllables)

12 names (31.6% of variations) 82.03% of births

D IH1 L IH0 N

Dylan

Verified

Confidence: 12.0%

Dylin

Confidence: 56.8%

Dillyn

Confidence: 75.7%

Dillin

Verified

Confidence: 77.3%

Confidence: 88.2%

Confidence: 78.1%

Confidence: 86.8%

Confidence: 66.7%

Confidence: 42.9%

Confidence: 77.1%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

DIH-lehn (2 syllables)

2 names 45 births

D IH1 L EH0 N

Should "Dylan" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Dilen 40 births

Dylenn 5 births

DIH-lih-uhn (3 syllables)

1 name 3.6k births

D IH1 L IH0 AH0 N

Should "Dylan" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Dillion 3.6k 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 D IH1 L AH0 N) 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.