Șahin

surname · Latin script

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

Șahin 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. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England: esp.. variant of Sale and of the typically Manx variant of this, Sayle.

rarermore common
  • 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 Șahin 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)

688,214 people, 2025

#527 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
260 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 119 (inferred from the name graph)

Türkiye

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ȘahinLatin(measured from records)
СахилCyrillic(measured from records)
শাহিনBengali(measured from records)
ซาฮิลThai(measured from records)
საჰილGeorgian(measured from records)
ସାହିଲOdia(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Şahin in TR Türkiye, SY Syria, CY Cyprus, 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)

Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England: esp.. variant of Sale and of the typically Manx variant of this, Sayle.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Șahin 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 Șahin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#7688,2141 in 119688KŞahin165
PK Pakistan—≈49,000 est.≈1 in 4.7KlistedSahil50
AF Afghanistan—≈32,000 est.≈1 in 1.1K2Sahil21
BD Bangladesh#120≈8,400 est.≈1 in 19KlistedShahin99
SY Syria#343≈6,600 est.≈1 in 2.9K—Şahin12
AZ Azerbaijan—≈3,700 est.≈1 in 2.8K496Сахил24
CY Cyprus#36≈890 est.≈1 in 1.4K—Şahin15

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Șahin is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Türkiye, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Sahin, Şahin, Ş'Ahin, Šahin, Şahîn

  • Hindi surname15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu, Sinhala

    Also written Sahin, Ş'Ahin, Śãhìñ, Šahin, Şahîn

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Şahin, Šāhīn, Ŝahin, Ṣaḥin, Šahin

3 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

198019902000Shahin Imranov, b. 1980Şahin Atamov, b. 1986Shahin Adygezalov, b. 1993Shahin Lorparizangeneh, b. 1999

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 4 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Șahin mean, and where does it come from?
Main GB Location (1881): scattered in England: esp.. variant of Sale and of the typically Manx variant of this, Sayle. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland.
In which country does Șahin have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 688 thousand people named Șahin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şahin.
Where is Șahin most common?
Șahin is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 119 people carrying it.
How common is the name Șahin?
In Türkiye, the national register counted 688,214 people named Șahin in 2025, about 1 in 119 residents.
How common is Șahin compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Șahin is the 7th most common surname of 619,652 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Șahin” — the 7th most common surname in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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