girls:
295 births since 1969
#5421 (5th percentile)
overall:
295 births since 1969
#7444 (4th percentile)
The name Shanah is the #7,444 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 295 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 3.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,421 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 295 births since 1969.
Shanah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (first recorded for girls in 1969). Birth data for Shanah is available in 33 out of the 40 years between 1969 and 2008. 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, Shanah reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #756) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanah".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Shanah", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 26 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Shana" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Shana..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shanah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.9% confident that Shanah is pronounced as SHAH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHUH-nuh, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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