boys:
21 births since 1990
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
21 births since 1990
#7718 (0th percentile)
The name Shahriar is the #7,718 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 21 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1990.
Shahriar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (first recorded for boys in 1990). Birth data for Shahriar is available in 4 out of the 15 years between 1990 and 2004. 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 boys, Shahriar reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #794) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shahriar".
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Our model has identified 16 different pronunciations for the name Shahriar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 22.0% confident that Shahriar is pronounced as shah-ree-AHR, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shah-REE-ahr, at 9.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AA0 R IY0 AA1 R) 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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