Shamshad
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shamshad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: , 2 Muslim name, from Persian: ‘box tree’.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 16K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 18K
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
- 107 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
, 2 Muslim name, from Persian: ‘box tree’. It suggests a woman who is tall, slender, and graceful.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shamshad 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 | #181 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | Shamshad | 53 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Shamshad | 13 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | — | — |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 703K | — | Shamshad | 3 |
| US United States | — | 299 | 1 in 1.1M | 222 | Shamshad | 78 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 288K | 60 | Shamshad | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | — |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; the muslim-baby-names-2000 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)
Shamshad is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, tall and upright tree, graceful figure
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Shamshad Alib. 1928PKbadminton player
- Shamshad Hussainb. 1946INartist (1946-2015)
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 26 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 222 | #29,557 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 77 | #29,557 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 60 | #10,616 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 44 | #12,706 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 6 | #588 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Shamshad come from?
- , 2 Muslim name, from Persian: ‘box tree’. It suggests a woman who is tall, slender, and graceful. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What does the name Shamshad mean?
- Recorded meaning: , 2 Muslim name, from Persian: ‘box tree’.
- Is Shamshad a male or female name?
- Shamshad is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Shamshad have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Shamshad in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shamshad.
- How common is the name Shamshad?
- In the United States, the national register counted 299 people named Shamshad in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Shamshad compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shamshad is the 181st most common given name of 77,659 given names 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, “Shamshad” — the 181st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.