girls:
220 births since 1977
#5496 (4th percentile)
overall:
220 births since 1977
#7519 (3rd percentile)
The name Shanavia is the #7,519 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 220 recorded births since 1977. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,496 (3.8% percentile) for all time with 220 births since 1977.
Shanavia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1977 (first recorded for girls in 1977). Birth data for Shanavia is available in 22 out of the 34 years between 1977 and 2010. 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, Shanavia reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #839) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanavia".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shanavia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.8% confident that Shanavia is pronounced as shuh-NAY-vee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-NAH-vee-uh, at 18.4% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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