Shah-Nawaz
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shah-Nawaz is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Muslim name, from Persian: ‘cherisher of kings’.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 10K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 9.4K
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
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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 Shahnawaz in PK Pakistan, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 5 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)
Muslim name, from Persian: ‘cherisher of kings’.
Sources 2
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shah-Nawaz 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 | #291 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 10K | 1 | Shahnawaz | 65 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Shahnawaz | 36 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Shahnawaz | 27 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 727K | — | Shahnawaz | 4 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | — | Shahnawaz | 46 |
| US United States | — | 226 | 1 in 1.5M | 215 | Shahnawaz | 107 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Shahnawaz | 9 |
| BH Bahrain | #934 | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Shahnawaz | 7 |
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. 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)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shah-Nawaz mean, and where does it come from?
- Muslim name, from Persian: ‘cherisher of kings’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman.
- Is Shah-Nawaz a male or female name?
- Shah-Nawaz 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 Shah-Nawaz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Shah-Nawaz in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shahnawaz.
- How common is the name Shah-Nawaz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 226 people named Shah-Nawaz in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Shah-Nawaz compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shah-Nawaz is the 291st most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shah-nawazThe 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, “Shah-Nawaz” — the 291st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.