Shelda

girls:

569 births since 1935

#5147 (10th percentile)

overall:

569 births since 1935

#7170 (7th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1935 1988 19351988

Key Statistics

Total Births
569
Peak Births
27
Peak Year
1941
First Recorded
1935
Peak Percentile
3.7%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#559
Current Rank
#808
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shelda

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

Our model is 100.0% confident that Shelda is pronounced as SHEHL-duh.

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SHEHL-duh (2 syllables)
100.0% confidence
SH EH1 L D AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SHEH-luh (2 syllables)
5 names 3.9k births
SH EH1 L AH0
SHA-luh (2 syllables)
4 names 2.4k births
SH AE1 L AH0

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 EH1 L D 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.

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.