Shabnam

girls:

435 births since 1969

#5281 (8th percentile)

overall:

435 births since 1969

#7304 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Shabnam is the #7,304 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 435 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 5.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,281 (7.6% percentile) for all time with 435 births since 1969.

Shabnam first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969). Birth data for Shabnam is available in 39 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Shabnam reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #783) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shabnam ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 33.6% of its peak share of births.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shabnam".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
435
Peak Births
22
Peak Year
1985
First Recorded
1969
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#783
Current Rank
#945
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shabnam

Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Shabnam. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 21.1% confident that Shabnam is pronounced as SHAB-nuhm, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAHB-nuhm, at 15.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.

SHAB-nuhm (2 syllables)
21.1% confidence
SH AE1 B N AH0 M
SHAHB-nuhm (2 syllables)
15.8% confidence
SH AA1 B N AH0 M
shuhb-NAM (2 syllables)
10.5% confidence
SH AH0 B N AE1 M
SHAB-nam (2 syllables)
10.5% confidence
SH AE1 B N AE0 M
SHUHB-nuhm (2 syllables)
7.9% confidence
SH AH1 B N AH0 M
SHAHB-nahm (2 syllables)
7.9% confidence
SH AA1 B N AA0 M
SHAHB-nam (2 syllables)
7.9% confidence
SH AA1 B N AE0 M
SHUHB-nam (2 syllables)
7.9% confidence
SH AH1 B N AE0 M
shuhb-NUHM (2 syllables)
5.3% confidence
SH AH0 B N AH1 M
SHAHB-NAM (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
SH AA1 B N AE1 M
shuhb-NAHM (2 syllables)
2.6% confidence
SH AH0 B N AA1 M

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 AE1 B N AH0 M) 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 or a single vowel sound.

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