girls:
38 births since 1999
#5678 (1st percentile)
boys:
120 births since 1999
#4466 (3rd percentile)
overall:
158 births since 1999
#7581 (2nd percentile)
The name Shion is the #7,581 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 158 recorded births since 1999. This represents the 2.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,466 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 120 births since 1999. For girls, it ranks #5,678 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 38 births since 1999.
Shion first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1999 . Birth data for Shion is available in 17 out of the 25 years between 1999 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 7 years for girls). 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 Shion has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.9% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Shion were boys.
For boys, Shion reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #876) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Shion ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 80.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shion reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #982) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shion".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Shion. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 58.3% confident that Shion is pronounced as SHEE-uhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHEE-ahn, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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