Şahira

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Şahira is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 857 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. Recorded meaning: moon; a spring which flows constantly.

  • UYUruguay1 in 54K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 136K
  • USUnited States1 in 388K

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)

857 people, 2020

Record sources
10 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)

Uruguay

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sahira in US United States, AF Afghanistan.

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)

moon; a spring which flows constantly

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Şahira 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 Şahira is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8571 in 388K854Sahira8
ES Spain1091 in 459K109—1
SE Sweden751 in 136K75——
AF Afghanistan≈72 est.≈1 in 592K1Sahira2
UY Uruguay631 in 54K63——
TM Turkmenistan≈34 est.≈1 in 217K—Şahira2

857 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Şahira is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi given name32 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Pakistan, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, English, Bangla

    Also written Sahira, Sāhira, Sahïra

  • Uzbek given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq

    Also written Sahira

  • Russian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Iraq, Türkiye, Syria, Malaysia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Sahira

  • Pashto given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, Iraq

    Also written Sahira

  • Malay given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Philippines

    Languages: Malay, Indonesian

    Also written Sahira

  • Spanish given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Mexico, Argentina, United States, Dominican Republic

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sahira, Sáhira, Sahíra, Sâhîrâ, Sähïrä

1 further group 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.

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Şahira under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Şahira mean, and where does it come from?
moon; a spring which flows constantly Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
Is Şahira a male or female name?
Şahira 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.
Which countries have the most people named Şahira?
In the United States, the national register counted about 857 people named Şahira, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sahira. After it come Spain, Sweden, Afghanistan and Uruguay; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Şahira most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Şahira is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 54 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Şahira?
In the United States, the national register counted 857 people named Şahira in 2020, about 1 in 388 thousand residents.

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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, “Şahira” — ranked 13912th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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