girls:
5.4k births since 1948
#2268 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1948
#3699 (52nd percentile)
The name Shoshana is the #3,699 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,445 recorded births since 1948. This represents the 52.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 52.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,268 (60.3% percentile) for all time with 5,445 births since 1948.
Shoshana first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1948 (first recorded for girls in 1948). Birth data for Shoshana is available in 75 out of the 76 years between 1948 and 2023. 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, Shoshana reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 15.8% percentile (ranked #727) with 74 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 84 births per million (ranked 15.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2016, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Shoshana ranks #827 for girls (12.7% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 84.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shoshana".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Shoshana. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.8% confident that Shoshana is pronounced as shoh-SHAH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shoh-SHA-nuh, at 21.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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