boys:
591 births since 1910
#3995 (13th percentile)
overall:
591 births since 1910
#7148 (8th percentile)
The name Shigeru is the #7,148 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 591 recorded births since 1910. This represents the 7.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,995 (12.8% percentile) for all time with 591 births since 1910.
Shigeru first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1910 (first recorded for boys in 1910). Birth data for Shigeru is available in 29 out of the 29 years between 1910 and 1938. 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 boys, Shigeru reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 6.7% percentile (ranked #513) with 37 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 39 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1938.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shigeru".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Shigeru. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.2% confident that Shigeru is pronounced as shee-GEH-rue, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shih-GEH-rue, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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