Marilyn (28 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Marilyn

Our model has identified 28 different spellings of Marilyn that are grouped together because they share at least one of 7 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 37.0% confident that Marilyn is pronounced as MEH-ruh-lihn. There are 24 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Marilyn is MA-ruh-lihn, at 28.3% confidence. There are 9 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

MEH-ruh-lihn

89.3%

405,269

99.45%

37.0%

MEH-rih-lihn

67.9%

403,443

99.00%

4.3%

MEH-ree-lihn

46.4%

401,465

98.52%

6.5%

MA-ruh-lihn

35.7%

393,212

96.49%

28.3%

MEH-ruh-luhn

25.0%

388,856

95.42%

15.2%

MA-rih-lihn

25.0%

394,112

96.71%

4.3%

MAH-ree-lihn

10.7%

388,207

95.26%

4.3%

MEH-ruh-lihn (3 syllables)

25 names (89.3% of variations) 99.45% of births

M EH1 R AH0 L IH0 N

Marilyn

Verified

Confidence: 37.0%

Confidence: 13.0%

Confidence: 32.0%

Confidence: 31.7%

Confidence: 24.3%

Confidence: 9.4%

Confidence: 31.6%

Confidence: 18.2%

Confidence: 64.5%

Confidence: 20.0%

MA-ruh-lihn (3 syllables)

10 names (35.7% of variations) 96.49% of births

M AE1 R AH0 L IH0 N

Confidence: 28.3%

Confidence: 17.4%

Confidence: 46.9%

Confidence: 36.8%

Confidence: 27.3%

Confidence: 9.7%

Confidence: 8.9%

Confidence: 5.7%

Confidence: 13.9%

Confidence: 26.1%

MEH-ruh-luhn (3 syllables)

7 names (25.0% of variations) 95.42% of births

M EH1 R AH0 L AH0 N

Marilyn

Verified

Confidence: 15.2%

Marilynn

Verified

Confidence: 13.0%

Confidence: 7.9%

Confidence: 15.2%

Confidence: 5.3%

Confidence: 15.6%

Confidence: 2.8%

MEH-ree-lihn (3 syllables)

13 names (46.4% of variations) 98.52% of births

M EH1 R IY0 L IH0 N

Confidence: 6.5%

Confidence: 4.3%

Confidence: 28.0%

Confidence: 29.3%

Confidence: 21.6%

Confidence: 37.2%

Confidence: 6.8%

Confidence: 5.1%

Confidence: 21.1%

Confidence: 18.2%

MA-rih-lihn (3 syllables)

7 names (25.0% of variations) 96.71% of births

M AE1 R IH0 L IH0 N

Marilyn

Confidence: 4.3%

Marilynn

Confidence: 19.6%

Marylin

Verified

Confidence: 12.0%

Marilynne

Confidence: 9.1%

Marilin

Verified

Confidence: 31.1%

Marillyn

Confidence: 28.6%

Marilyne

Confidence: 12.8%

MEH-rih-lihn (3 syllables)

19 names (67.9% of variations) 99.00% of births

M EH1 R IH0 L IH0 N

Confidence: 4.3%

Confidence: 8.7%

Confidence: 28.0%

Confidence: 26.8%

Confidence: 48.6%

Confidence: 30.2%

Confidence: 4.5%

Confidence: 15.6%

Confidence: 33.3%

Confidence: 17.1%

MAH-ree-lihn (3 syllables)

3 names (10.7% of variations) 95.26% of births

M AA1 R IY0 L IH0 N

Marilyn

Confidence: 4.3%

Marilynn

Confidence: 2.2%

Marilynne

Confidence: 4.5%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

MEH-reh-lihn (3 syllables)

2 names 388 births

M EH1 R EH0 L IH0 N

Should "Marilyn" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Merelyn 316 births

Merelin 72 births

MEH-rih-eh-lihn (4 syllables)

1 name 5 births

M EH1 R IH0 EH0 L IH0 N

Should "Marilyn" have this pronunciation?

Names with this pronunciation:

Maryellyn 5 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 M EH1 R AH0 L IH0 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.