girls:
70 births since 1996
#5646 (1st percentile)
overall:
70 births since 1996
#7669 (1st percentile)
The name Shanayah is the #7,669 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 70 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 0.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,646 (1.2% percentile) for all time with 70 births since 1996.
Shanayah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (first recorded for girls in 1996). Birth data for Shanayah is available in 11 out of the 27 years between 1996 and 2022. 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, Shanayah reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #883) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shanayah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Shanayah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 41.7% confident that Shanayah is pronounced as shuh-NAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-NAY-uh, at 36.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AH0 N AY1 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.
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