girls:
2.1k births since 1947
#3777 (34th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1947
#5720 (26th percentile)
The name Shala is the #5,720 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,061 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 26.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,777 (33.9% percentile) for all time with 2,061 births since 1947.
Shala first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (first recorded for girls in 1947). Birth data for Shala is available in 57 out of the 66 years between 1947 and 2012. 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 girls, Shala reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 9.9% percentile (ranked #766) with 44 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 44 births per million (ranked 9.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shala".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Shala. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.6% confident that Shala is pronounced as SHAY-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAH-luh, at 38.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH EY1 L AH0) 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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