Shafiq
given name · Latin script
Meaning: compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, warm-hearted
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃefɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shafiq is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.5K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 201 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈90,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, warm-hearted. See Mushfiq 32+.; Shafug 352+
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shafiq 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #407 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | 5 | Shafiq | 116 |
| BD Bangladesh | #598 | ≈46,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Shafiq | 65 |
| AF Afghanistan | #213 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Shafiq | 30 |
| MY Malaysia | #755 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Shafiq | 54 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #578 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | listed | Shafiq | 55 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #444 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | — | Shafiq | 70 |
| US United States | — | 495 | 1 in 672K | 838 | Shafiq | 201 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 register. 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)
Shafiq is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, affectionate; compassionate; tender; kind-hearted
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
‘Compassionate’. Feminine form: Shafiga.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Compassionate,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
affectionate;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Shafiq ʻAbd al-Malikb. 1898EGEgyptian anatomist (1898-1988)
- Shafiq Jabrib. 1898SYSyrian academic and poet (1898-1980)
- Shafiq Barelvib. 1920PKPakistani Urdu language poet and journalist
- Shafiq Galalb. 1929EGEgyptian singer
- Shafiq al-Kamalib. 1929IQIraqi poet
- Shafiq Ziab. 1931PKFirst Lady of Pakistan (b. 1931, d. 1996)
- Shafiq al-Houtb. 1932ILPalestinian politician (1932-2009)
- Shafeeq Al Ghabrab. 1953KWnot in their usual nameKuwaiti academic
- Shafiq Chitoub. 1985BJBeninese boxer
- Shafīq MahdīEGEgyptian historian
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 49 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 481 | #20,756 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 14 | #20,756 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 7 | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Where does the name Shafiq come from?
- compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, warm-hearted. See Mushfiq 32+.; Shafug 352+ Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shafiq?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃefɪk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- What does the name Shafiq mean?
- Recorded meaning: compassionate, kind-hearted, affectionate, warm-hearted.
- Is Shafiq a male or female name?
- Shafiq is a male 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.
- In which country does Shafiq have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 90 thousand people named Shafiq in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shafiq.
- How common is the name Shafiq?
- In the United States, the national register counted 495 people named Shafiq in 2020, about 1 in 672 thousand residents.
- How common is Shafiq compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shafiq is the 407th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shafiqThe 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, “Shafiq” — the 407th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.