girls:
119 births since 2002
#5597 (2nd percentile)
overall:
119 births since 2002
#7620 (2nd percentile)
The name Shalva is the #7,620 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 119 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,597 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 2002.
Shalva first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (first recorded for girls in 2002). Birth data for Shalva is available in 16 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023. 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, Shalva reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #951) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Shalva ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 90.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shalva".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shalva. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 60.5% confident that Shalva is pronounced as SHAHL-vuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAL-vuh, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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