Sha is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
Recently, the name Sha has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Sha. That means that a girl named Sha is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sha.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Sha. Girls named Sha have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,128 Sha ranked higher than ever before in 1978. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Sha has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Sha only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sha was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Sha in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 97 women and girls named Sha, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 97 women and girls named Sha live in no more than 6 different states, including for example Alabama, California, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Sha. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Sha lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Sha and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Sha relative to its female population is Alabama. And even there, only one in 139,682 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Sha.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Sha is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Sha and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sha, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sha
Sha
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sha sounds like this:
