Shirlene (11 ways): Pronunciations

How to Pronounce Shirlene

Our model has identified 11 different spellings of Shirlene 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 65.9% confident that Shirlene is pronounced as sher-LEEN. There are 9 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

The next most likely pronunciation for Shirlene is SHER-leen, at 27.3% confidence. There are 10 other spelling variants that share this pronunciation.

SHER-leen

100.0%

8,856

100.00%

27.3%

sher-LEEN

90.9%

8,500

95.98%

65.9%

SHIHR-leen

27.3%

6,982

78.84%

6.8%

sher-LEEN (2 syllables)

10 names (90.9% of variations) 95.98% of births

SH ER0 L IY1 N

Shirlene

Confidence: 65.9%

Shirleen

Verified

Confidence: 74.4%

Confidence: 59.0%

Confidence: 41.7%

Confidence: 16.3%

Confidence: 61.1%

Confidence: 61.5%

Confidence: 75.0%

Confidence: 34.0%

Confidence: 58.3%

SHER-leen (2 syllables)

11 names (100.0% of variations)

SH ER1 L IY0 N

Shirlene

Verified

Confidence: 27.3%

Confidence: 14.0%

Confidence: 35.9%

Confidence: 28.8%

Confidence: 44.4%

Confidence: 18.6%

Confidence: 38.9%

Confidence: 23.1%

Confidence: 25.0%

Confidence: 17.0%

SHIHR-leen (2 syllables)

3 names (27.3% of variations) 78.84% of births

SH IH1 R L IY0 N

Shirlene

Confidence: 6.8%

Shirleen

Confidence: 11.6%

Shirlean

Confidence: 8.3%

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SHER-LEEN (2 syllables)

5 names 2k births

SH ER1 L IY1 N

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SHEH-ruh-LEEN (3 syllables)

4 names 345 births

SH EH1 R AH0 L IY1 N

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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 ER0 L IY1 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.