Shana

girls:

29.6k births since 1937

#827 (86th percentile)

boys:

113 births since 1972

#4473 (2nd percentile)

overall:

29.7k births since 1937

#1480 (81st percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1937 2023 19372023

Key Statistics

Total Births
29,573
Peak Births
1,561
Peak Year
1984
First Recorded
1937
Peak Percentile
78.8%
Current Percentile
2.1%
Peak Rank
#168
Current Rank
#927
Female statistics
Total Births
113
Peak Births
11
Peak Year
1977
First Recorded
1972
Peak Percentile
0.9%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#642
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shana

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shana. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.3% confident that Shana is pronounced as SHAH-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAY-nuh, at 33.9% confidence.

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39.3%
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33.9%
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21.4%
SHA-nuh (2 syllables)
Verified
21.4% confidence
SH AE1 N AH0
SHUH-nuh (2 syllables)
5.4% confidence
SH AH1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shuh-NUH (2 syllables)
9 names 5.1k births
SH AH0 N AH1
SHEH-nuh (2 syllables)
3 names 3.7k births
SH EH1 N 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 AA1 N 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.

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.