Josiah (25 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Josiah

Our model has identified 25 different spellings of Josiah 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 39.0% confident that Josiah is pronounced as joh-ZAI-uh. There are 22 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Josiah is joh-SAI-uh, at 39.0% confidence. There are 16 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

joh-ZAI-uh

92.0%

146,014

99.97%

39.0%

joh-SAI-uh

68.0%

140,726

96.35%

39.0%

JOH-sai-uh

36.0%

139,287

95.36%

12.2%

JOH-zai-uh

28.0%

143,717

98.40%

4.9%

JOH-ZAI-uh

16.0%

138,667

94.94%

4.9%

joh-ZAI-uh (3 syllables)

23 names (92.0% of variations) 99.97% of births

JH OW0 Z AY1 AH0

Confidence: 39.0%

Confidence: 56.8%

Confidence: 9.1%

Confidence: 45.7%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 38.2%

Confidence: 8.3%

Confidence: 70.6%

Confidence: 23.3%

Confidence: 45.7%

joh-SAI-uh (3 syllables)

17 names (68.0% of variations) 96.35% of births

JH OW0 S AY1 AH0

Josiah

Verified

Confidence: 39.0%

Confidence: 36.4%

Confidence: 22.9%

Confidence: 20.0%

Confidence: 26.5%

Confidence: 41.7%

Confidence: 20.7%

Confidence: 18.8%

Confidence: 40.5%

Confidence: 13.6%

JOH-sai-uh (3 syllables)

9 names (36.0% of variations) 95.36% of births

JH OW1 S AY0 AH0

Confidence: 12.2%

Confidence: 22.9%

Confidence: 11.8%

Confidence: 2.3%

Confidence: 20.5%

Confidence: 6.1%

Confidence: 6.3%

Confidence: 12.1%

Confidence: 14.7%

JOH-zai-uh (3 syllables)

7 names (28.0% of variations) 98.40% of births

JH OW1 Z AY0 AH0

Confidence: 4.9%

Confidence: 24.3%

Confidence: 2.5%

Confidence: 29.4%

Confidence: 6.3%

Confidence: 15.6%

Confidence: 6.1%

JOH-ZAI-uh (3 syllables)

4 names (16.0% of variations) 94.94% of births

JH OW1 Z AY1 AH0

Confidence: 4.9%

Confidence: 2.5%

Confidence: 6.1%

Confidence: 7.3%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

JOH-SAI-uh (3 syllables)

5 names 1k births

JH OW1 S AY1 AH0

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joh-ZAY-uh (3 syllables)

5 names 471 births

JH OW0 Z EY1 AH0

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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 JH OW0 Z AY1 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.