boys:
80 births since 1985
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
80 births since 1985
#7659 (1st percentile)
The name Shankar is the #7,659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 80 recorded births since 1985. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1985.
Shankar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1985 (first recorded for boys in 1985). Birth data for Shankar is available in 13 out of the 34 years between 1985 and 2018. 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 boys, Shankar reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shankar".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Shankar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 25.0% confident that Shankar is pronounced as SHANGK-er, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHUHNGK-er, at 22.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AE1 N G K ER0) 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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