girls:
26 births since 1970
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1963
#3398 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1963
#6506 (16th percentile)
The name Shain is the #6,506 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,235 recorded births since 1963. This represents the 15.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,398 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,209 births since 1963. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1970.
Shain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1963 (1963 for boys and 1970 for girls). Birth data for Shain is available in 57 out of the 60 years between 1963 and 2022 (57 years for boys and 5 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 Shain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shain reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #660) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Shain reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #772) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shain".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shain is pronounced as shayn, which has 1 syllables.
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