Shania

girls:

15.7k births since 1970

#1213 (79th percentile)

overall:

15.7k births since 1970

#2084 (73rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1970 2023 19702023

Key Statistics

Total Births
15,674
Peak Births
1,837
Peak Year
1996
First Recorded
1970
Peak Percentile
80.2%
Current Percentile
9.6%
Peak Rank
#171
Current Rank
#856
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shania

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

Our model is 58.1% confident that Shania is pronounced as shuh-NEE-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-NAI-uh, at 41.9% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shuh-NAI-yuh (3 syllables)
9 names 7.2k births
SH AH0 N AY1 Y AH0
shuh-NAY-uh (3 syllables)
13 names 4.8k births
SH AH0 N EY1 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 AH0 N IY1 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.