girls:
10 births since 1979
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
403 births since 1972
#4183 (9th percentile)
overall:
413 births since 1972
#7326 (5th percentile)
The name Shah is the #7,326 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 413 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,183 (8.7% percentile) for all time with 403 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 1979.
Shah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1979 for girls). Birth data for Shah is available in 41 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 2 years for girls). 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.
The name Shah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #884) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Shah ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 73.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shah reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #786) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shah".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.2% confident that Shah is pronounced as shah, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh, at 9.8% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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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 AA1) 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.
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