Šhehata
surname · Latin script
Šhehata is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country, where it is the 98th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Arabic شَحَّاتَة (šaḥḥāta), from شَحَّات (šaḥḥāt, “beggar”).
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 8.7Kfew records
- QAQatar≈1 in 11Kfew records
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.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 209 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈71,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shehata in EG Egypt, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 3 more.
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)- Arabicشَحَّاتَةšaḥḥāta(measured from records)
- Arabic rootشَحَّاتšaḥḥāt“beggar”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Arabic شَحَّاتَة (šaḥḥāta), from شَحَّات (šaḥḥāt, “beggar”). In the Dictionary of American Family Names, the surname is given as a variant of Shehadeh, which is apparently from a different root. This surname is predominantly found in Egypt.
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Šhehata 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #98 | ≈71,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Shehata | 149 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Shehata | 50 |
| US United States | — | 1,031 | 1 in 323K | 1.9K | Shehata | 209 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #763 | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Shehata | 57 |
| KW Kuwait | #742 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Shehata | 20 |
| QA Qatar | #682 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Shehata | 22 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 Šhehata mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Arabic شَحَّاتَة (šaḥḥāta), from شَحَّات (šaḥḥāt, “beggar”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Šhehata have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 71 thousand people named Šhehata in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shehata.
- How common is the name Šhehata?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,031 people named Šhehata in 2010, about 1 in 323 thousand residents.
- How common is Šhehata compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Šhehata is the 98th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1hehataThe 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, “Šhehata” — the 98th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.