Kathleen (20 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Kathleen

Our model has identified 20 different spellings of Kathleen that are grouped together because they share at least one of 3 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 52.5% confident that Kathleen is pronounced as KATH-leen. There are 19 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Kathleen is KATH-LEEN, at 33.9% confidence. There are 14 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

KATH-leen

100.0%

757,623

100.00%

52.5%

KATH-LEEN

75.0%

751,832

99.24%

33.9%

kath-LEEN

45.0%

747,455

98.66%

13.6%

KATH-leen (2 syllables)

20 names (100.0% of variations)

K AE1 TH L IY0 N

Confidence: 52.5%

Confidence: 50.0%

Confidence: 15.2%

Verified

Confidence: 75.5%

Confidence: 35.4%

Confidence: 77.3%

Confidence: 22.6%

Confidence: 49.0%

Confidence: 13.9%

Confidence: 57.4%

KATH-LEEN (2 syllables)

15 names (75.0% of variations) 99.24% of births

K AE1 TH L IY1 N

Kathleen

Confidence: 33.9%

Cathleen

Verified

Confidence: 40.6%

Kathlene

Verified

Confidence: 24.5%

Confidence: 37.5%

Confidence: 22.7%

Confidence: 28.3%

Confidence: 35.3%

Confidence: 25.5%

Confidence: 46.7%

Confidence: 26.8%

kath-LEEN (2 syllables)

9 names (45.0% of variations) 98.66% of births

K AE0 TH L IY1 N

Kathleen

Verified

Confidence: 13.6%

Cathleen

Verified

Confidence: 9.4%

Confidence: 10.4%

Confidence: 7.5%

Confidence: 15.7%

Confidence: 8.5%

Confidence: 6.7%

Confidence: 12.5%

Confidence: 2.1%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

KA-thuh-leen (3 syllables)

17 names 5.8k births

K AE1 TH AH0 L IY0 N

Should "Kathleen" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Kathaleen 4.1k births

KA-thuh-LEEN (3 syllables)

16 names 5.8k births

K AE1 TH AH0 L IY1 N

Should "Kathleen" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Kathaleen 4.1k 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 K AE1 TH L IY0 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.