girls:
117 births since 1968
#5599 (2nd percentile)
overall:
117 births since 1968
#7622 (1st percentile)
The name Shonya is the #7,622 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 117 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 1.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,599 (2.0% percentile) for all time with 117 births since 1968.
Shonya first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (first recorded for girls in 1968). Birth data for Shonya is available in 13 out of the 24 years between 1968 and 1991. 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 girls, Shonya reached its peak popularity in 1971, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #760) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1971, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1991.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shonya".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shonya. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 61.0% confident that Shonya is pronounced as SHAH-nyuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAW-nyuh, at 29.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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