girls:
11 births since 1977
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1976
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
16 births since 1976
#7723 (0th percentile)
The name Shoney is the #7,723 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 16 recorded births since 1976. This represents the 0.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1977. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1976.
Shoney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1976 (1976 for boys and 1977 for girls). Birth data for Shoney is available in 3 out of the 4 years between 1976 and 1979 (2 years for girls and 1 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 Shoney has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (68.8% of all recorded births). In 1979, 100.0% of babies named Shoney were girls.
For girls, Shoney reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #785) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1979.
For boys, Shoney reached its peak popularity in 1976, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #656) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1976.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shoney".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shoney is pronounced as SHOH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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