Shay

girls:

7.8k births since 1953

#1839 (68th percentile)

boys:

4.8k births since 1932

#1721 (62nd percentile)

overall:

12.7k births since 1932

#2337 (70th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1932 2023 19322023

Key Statistics

Total Births
7,833
Peak Births
301
Peak Year
2021
First Recorded
1953
Peak Percentile
30.7%
Current Percentile
26.0%
Peak Rank
#621
Current Rank
#701
Female statistics
Total Births
4,848
Peak Births
154
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1932
Peak Percentile
19.4%
Current Percentile
9.2%
Peak Rank
#530
Current Rank
#827
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shay

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shay. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Shay is pronounced as shay.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

shai (1 syllable)
9 names 4.5k births
SH AY1
chay (1 syllable)
7 names 3.5k births
CH EY1

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 EY1) 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.