girls:
2.1k births since 1976
#3740 (35th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1976
#5676 (27th percentile)
The name Shekinah is the #5,676 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,107 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 26.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,740 (34.6% percentile) for all time with 2,107 births since 1976.
Shekinah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (first recorded for girls in 1976).
For girls, Shekinah reached its peak popularity in 2000, achieving the 11.6% percentile (ranked #793) with 55 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 55 births per million (ranked 11.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Shekinah ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 29.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shekinah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Shekinah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Shekinah is pronounced as shuh-KEE-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is sheh-KAI-nuh, at 28.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AH0 K IY1 N 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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