Shia is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
Few children have been named Shia in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 4 out of 100,000 children are currently called Shia. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Shia at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Shia is number *** on the list of most common first names.
In fact, the name Shia did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Shia seemed to be more popular than ever in 2021. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,224, 200 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Shia, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, expectant parents chose the yet rare name Shia a few times. Among all babies it ranked #2,304 - with a total of 194 newborns. This means, as you can see above, that the name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it supposedly didn't appear at all for many years - giving children with this first name a sheen of something particularly contemporary and special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a real popular first letter for given names. That’s because 7.7% of all common frist names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A, J and K are more common for first names.
With four letters, the name Shia is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four 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 7.7% of all first names start with an S, this initial letter occurs more than twice as often as all 26 letters on average.
If your name is Shia 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 Shia, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shia
Shia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
I
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
I
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. Shia sounds like this:
