Şahin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: buzzard, hawk (especially species of Buteo)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şahin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname.
- TRTürkiye1 in 119(measured from records)
- SYSyria≈1 in 2.9K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.7Kas Sahil
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Şahin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (measured from records)
- #527 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- 1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)
688,214 people, 2025
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Sahil in PK Pakistan, AF Afghanistan, Shahin in BD Bangladesh and Сахил in AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
buzzard, hawk (especially species of Buteo)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şahin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #7 | 688,214 | 1 in 119 | 688K | Şahin | 165 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈49,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | listed | Sahil | 50 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 2 | Sahil | 21 |
| BD Bangladesh | #120 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Shahin | 99 |
| SY Syria | #343 | ≈6,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Şahin | 12 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | 496 | Сахил | 24 |
| CY Cyprus | #36 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Şahin | 15 |
688,214 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used surnames, 2025. 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: TÜİK NIP — most used surnames; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Şahin 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 Turkish, Oldukça büyük boylu, yırtıcı kuş.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
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)
- Mehmet Ali Şahinb. 1950TRTurkish attorney and statesperson (born 1950)
- Vasip Şahinb. 1964TRTurkish statesperson (born 1964)
- Uğur Şahinb. 1965DEGerman oncologist, developer of COVID-19 vaccine
- Reyhan Şahinb. 1980DEGerman rapper
- Ramazan Şahinb. 1983RUTurkish wrestler (born 1983)
- Sıla Şahinb. 1985DETurkish-German actor (born 1985)
- Nuri Şahinb. 1988DETurkish-German association football player (born 1988)
- Bahar Şahinb. 1997TRTurkish actor (born 1997)
- Saliha Şahinb. 1998TRTurkish volleyball player (born 1998)
- Elif Şahinb. 2001TRTurkish volleyball player (born 2001)
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 16 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 496 | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2004 | — | #88 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2003 | — | #69 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2002 | — | #95 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 2001 | — | #97 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1997 | — | #89 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1996 | — | #84 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1995 | — | #81 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1994 | — | #87 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1993 | — | #90 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1992 | — | #81 |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK — Statistics on Child (baby names) | 1991 | — | #87 |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şahin mean, and where does it come from?
- buzzard, hawk (especially species of Buteo) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Şahin?
- In the etymology graph, Shaheen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Şahin have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 688 thousand people named Şahin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şahin.
- Where is Şahin most common?
- Şahin is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 119 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Şahin?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 688,214 people named Şahin in 2025, about 1 in 119 residents.
- How common is Şahin compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Şahin is the 7th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FahinThe 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, “Şahin” — the 7th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.