girls:
653 births since 1950
#5063 (11th percentile)
overall:
653 births since 1950
#7086 (8th percentile)
The name Sharia is the #7,086 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 653 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 8.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,063 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 653 births since 1950.
Sharia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950). Birth data for Sharia is available in 46 out of the 71 years between 1950 and 2020. 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, Sharia reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 3.5% percentile (ranked #741) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sharia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Sharia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 50.0% confident that Sharia is pronounced as shuh-REE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAH-ree-uh, at 19.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AH0 R 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.
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