Shãï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shãï is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a sieve, sifter, strainer.
- USUnited States1 in 118K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 144K
- PLPoland1 in 181K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 91 (measured from records)
- 1 in 118K (inferred from the name graph)
2,822 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shai in US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a sieve, sifter, strainer
Cited for this meaning 1
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shãï counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 2,822 | 1 in 118K | 1.6K | Shai | 91 |
| PL Poland | 211 | 1 in 181K | 145 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | 120 | 1 in 144K | 81 | — | 9 |
| ES Spain | 29 | 1 in 1.7M | 29 | Shai | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 11 | 1 in 507K | 30 | — | — |
2,822 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shãï mean, and where does it come from?
- a sieve, sifter, strainer Recorded by Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007).
- Is Shãï a male or female name?
- Shãï is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shãï have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Shãï, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shai.
- Where is Shãï most common?
- Shãï is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 118 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shãï?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,822 people named Shãï in 2020, about 1 in 118 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%A3%C3%AFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shãï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.