Sharai

girls:

465 births since 1971

#5251 (8th percentile)

overall:

465 births since 1971

#7274 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Sharai is the #7,274 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 465 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 6.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,251 (8.1% percentile) for all time with 465 births since 1971.

Sharai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971). Birth data for Sharai is available in 39 out of the 47 years between 1971 and 2017. 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, Sharai reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #879) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.

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

1971 2017 19712017

Key Statistics

Total Births
465
Peak Births
23
Peak Year
2000
First Recorded
1971
Peak Percentile
2.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#879
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Sharai

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Sharai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 39.5% confident that Sharai is pronounced as shuh-RAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shah-RAI, at 21.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.

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39.5%
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21.1%
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shuh-RAI (2 syllables)
39.5% confidence
SH AH0 R AY1
shah-RAI (2 syllables)
21.1% confidence
SH AA0 R AY1
shuh-RAH-ee (3 syllables)
5.3% confidence
SH AH0 R AA1 IY0
sher-AI (2 syllables)
5.3% confidence
SH ER0 AY1
SHUH-rai (2 syllables)
5.3% confidence
SH AH1 R AY0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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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 R AY1) 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.

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