Shi — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shi

The Social Security Administration has registered 332 babies named Shi between 1974 and 2022, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 19 babies received it in a single year. Shi is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 80 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shi performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 115 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shi shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 332 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.