girls:
201 births since 1998
#5515 (3rd percentile)
boys:
48 births since 1989
#4538 (1st percentile)
overall:
249 births since 1989
#7490 (3rd percentile)
The name Shiya is the #7,490 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 249 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 3.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,515 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 201 births since 1998. For boys, it ranks #4,538 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 48 births since 1989.
Shiya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1998 for girls). Birth data for Shiya is available in 22 out of the 33 years between 1989 and 2021 (21 years for girls and 7 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 Shiya has been given predominantly to girls, with 80.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2021, 46.2% of babies named Shiya were girls. Interestingly, until around 1998, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1989 to 1997), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (82.4% girls from 1998 to 2021).
For girls, Shiya reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #949) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Shiya reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #753) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shiya".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shiya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.4% confident that Shiya is pronounced as SHEE-uh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAI-uh, at 30.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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