Shai

girls:

1.7k births since 1968

#4072 (29th percentile)

boys:

2k births since 1971

#2775 (39th percentile)

overall:

3.7k births since 1968

#4492 (42nd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1968 2023 19682023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,691
Peak Births
116
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1968
Peak Percentile
11.7%
Current Percentile
11.7%
Peak Rank
#737
Current Rank
#836
Female statistics
Total Births
2,048
Peak Births
219
Peak Year
2023
First Recorded
1971
Peak Percentile
23.4%
Current Percentile
23.4%
Peak Rank
#651
Current Rank
#698
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shai

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shai. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 89.7% confident that Shai is pronounced as shai. The next most likely pronunciation is shay, at 10.3% confidence.

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89.7%
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10.3%
shai (1 syllable)
Verified
89.7% confidence
SH AY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shee (1 syllable)
7 names 21.3k births
SH IY1
SHAI-uh (2 syllables)
12 names 6.7k births
SH AY1 AH0

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 AY1) 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.