Shi is a female first name, but it has increasingly been given to boys for a number of years.
Recently, the name Shi 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 Shi. That means that a girl named Shi 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 Shi.
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 to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shi. Girls named Shi have made themselves scarce. But some parents have recently gotten a taste for it: At No. 3,938 Shi ranked higher than ever in 2001. By comparison, there have been 106 years in which the first name Shi 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 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Shi only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shi was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Shi continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Shi that year, ranking #11,784 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Shi, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a woman or girl named Shi is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Shi can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Shi. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Shi living in one state or another (if your name is Shi and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shi is in New York, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00005% of all female residents are named Shi – that’s just one in 1,988,886! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 women with that name. So, if your name is Shi, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
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 Shi 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 Shi 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 Shi, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Igloo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shi
Shi
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
I
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
I
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. Shi sounds like this:
