Shy

girls:

419 births since 1973

#5297 (7th percentile)

boys:

51 births since 1994

#4535 (1st percentile)

overall:

470 births since 1973

#7269 (6th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shy".

1973 2023 19732023

Key Statistics

Total Births
419
Peak Births
32
Peak Year
1997
First Recorded
1973
Peak Percentile
3.1%
Current Percentile
0.3%
Peak Rank
#738
Current Rank
#944
Female statistics
Total Births
51
Peak Births
9
Peak Year
2022
First Recorded
1994
Peak Percentile
0.4%
Current Percentile
0.1%
Peak Rank
#775
Current Rank
#910
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shy

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shy. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Shy is pronounced as shai.

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100.0%
shai (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
SH AY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Shy. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Shy, please vote using the thumbs up button.

shee (1 syllable)
7 names 21.3k births
SH IY1

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.