girls:
332 births since 1974
#5384 (6th percentile)
boys:
80 births since 1980
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
412 births since 1974
#7327 (5th percentile)
The name Shi is the #7,327 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 412 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 5.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,384 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 332 births since 1974. For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 1980.
Shi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for girls and 1980 for boys). Birth data for Shi is available in 37 out of the 49 years between 1974 and 2022 (35 years for girls and 12 years for boys). 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 Shi has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.6% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Shi were girls.
For girls, Shi reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #884) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Shi reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #899) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shi".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shi is pronounced as shee, which has 1 syllables.
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