girls:
15 births since 2008
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
385 births since 1991
#4201 (8th percentile)
overall:
400 births since 1991
#7339 (5th percentile)
The name Sheikh is the #7,339 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 400 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,201 (8.3% percentile) for all time with 385 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 2008.
Sheikh first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 2008 for girls). Birth data for Sheikh is available in 32 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (32 years for boys and 3 years for girls). 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.
The name Sheikh has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Sheikh reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #811) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Sheikh ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 65.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Sheikh reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% 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 "Sheikh".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Sheikh", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 6 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Cheikh" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Cheikh..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sheikh. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.5% confident that Sheikh is pronounced as shayk, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sheek, at 41.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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