Shelvia

girls:

400 births since 1936

#5316 (7th percentile)

overall:

400 births since 1936

#7339 (5th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1936 1981 19361981

Key Statistics

Total Births
400
Peak Births
63
Peak Year
1937
First Recorded
1936
Peak Percentile
10.0%
Current Percentile
0.0%
Peak Rank
#524
Current Rank
#777
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Shelvia

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shelvia. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 87.8% confident that Shelvia is pronounced as SHEHL-vee-uh. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEHL-vyuh, at 12.2% confidence.

SHEHL-vee-uh (3 syllables)
87.8% confidence
SH EH1 L V IY0 AH0
SHEHL-vyuh (2 syllables)
12.2% confidence
SH EH1 L V Y AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

SHEHL-vuh (2 syllables)
1 name 1.1k births
SH EH1 L V AH0

Names with this pronunciation:

SHEHL-vee (2 syllables)
3 names 742 births
SH EH1 L V IY0

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 V IY0 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.