Sham

girls:

200 births since 2001

#5516 (3rd percentile)

boys:

36 births since 1972

#4550 (1st percentile)

overall:

236 births since 1972

#7503 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1972 2023 19722023

Key Statistics

Total Births
200
Peak Births
33
Peak Year
2018
First Recorded
2001
Peak Percentile
2.9%
Current Percentile
1.0%
Peak Rank
#897
Current Rank
#938
Female statistics
Total Births
36
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
1974
First Recorded
1972
Peak Percentile
0.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#650
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Sham

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

Our model is 79.5% confident that Sham is pronounced as sham. The next most likely pronunciation is shuhm, at 20.5% confidence.

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sham (1 syllable)
Verified
79.5% confidence
SH AE1 M
shuhm (1 syllable)
20.5% confidence
SH AH1 M

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shahm (1 syllable)
3 names 788 births
SH AA1 M

Names with this pronunciation:

SHAI-uhm (2 syllables)
2 names 753 births
SH AY1 AH0 M

Names with this pronunciation:

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 AE1 M) 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.