girls:
129 births since 2002
#5587 (2nd percentile)
boys:
5 births since 2008
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
134 births since 2002
#7605 (2nd percentile)
The name Shyah is the #7,605 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 134 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,587 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 129 births since 2002. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2008.
Shyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for girls and 2008 for boys). Birth data for Shyah is available in 15 out of the 20 years between 2002 and 2021 (15 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 Shyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Shyah reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #970) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Shyah reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #907) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shyah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Shyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Shyah is pronounced as SHAI-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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