Shii

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Pronunciation spelling of shit

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Shii is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil≈1 in 106M(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (inferred from the name graph)

≈2 people, est.

Sources
9 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 106M (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Pronunciation spelling of shit.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Shii is read(measured from records)

Shii is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English34%

    Pronunciation spelling of shit.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Japanese20%

    Rōmaji transcription of しい

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Chinese9.6%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Shii in Chinese.

  • Arabic5.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Shii in Arabic.

  • Indonesian5.5%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Shii in Indonesian.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shii 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.

Where Shii is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil≈2 est.≈1 in 106M—Shii5
AR Argentina———Shii9
US United States——listedShii8
MX Mexico———Shii6
PH Philippines———Shii4

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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shii is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Shīï, Shïî

31 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Shii is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In dag, 1. the spirit of the human Singular cl. Definition Comment being 2. the soul 3. a bee 4. a honey bee 5. a tree like a silver birch, of which the branches have been used for rafters 6. a stand, made of clay, used to support large pots. Shia Kasi n. the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity in Christian Doctrine. KO (prot. usage, see vuhim )

    as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Masato Shii, b. 1889Masatsugu Shii, b. 1920Akiyoshi Shii, b. 1929Kazuo Shii, b. 1954Hirofumi Shii, b. 1972

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Shii
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shii mean, and where does it come from?
Pronunciation spelling of shit. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Shii a male or female name?
Shii is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Shii have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2 people named Shii in Brazil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shii.
How common is the name Shii?
Mondonomo estimates about 2 people in Brazil have Shii as their first given name, about 1 in 106 million residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

What do you want to know about Shii?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shii

The 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, “Shii”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Shii parses inside a full name →