Shaft

boys:

103 births since 1971

#4483 (2nd percentile)

overall:

103 births since 1971

#7636 (1st percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1971 1996 19711996

Key Statistics

Total Births
103
Peak Births
32
Peak Year
1972
First Recorded
1971
Peak Percentile
4.1%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#633
Current Rank
#777
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shaft

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shaft. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Shaft is pronounced as shaft.

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shaft (1 syllable)
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100.0% confidence
SH AE1 F T

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shehp (1 syllable)
1 name 184 births
SH EH1 P

Names with this pronunciation:

sheh-VEHT (2 syllables)
2 names 175 births
SH EH0 V EH1 T

Names with this pronunciation:

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 F T) 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.