girls:
160 births since 1981
#5556 (3rd percentile)
overall:
160 births since 1981
#7579 (2nd percentile)
The name Shemiah is the #7,579 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 160 recorded births since 1981. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,556 (2.8% percentile) for all time with 160 births since 1981.
Shemiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1981 (first recorded for girls in 1981). Birth data for Shemiah is available in 18 out of the 29 years between 1981 and 2009. 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.
For girls, Shemiah reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #884) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shemiah".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Shemiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Shemiah is pronounced as sheh-MAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuh-MAI-uh, at 28.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like SH EH0 M AY1 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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