Sheru
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: naampy, 2015
Sheru is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Pakistan it is the 53rd most common given name. Sheru is also written শের in Bengali.
- NPNepal≈1 in 2.2Kfew recordsas Sher(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.4Kas Sher
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.8Kfew recordsas Sher
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 Sheru 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈160,000 named Sher, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nepal, est., as Sher
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Sheru in other scripts: Latin and Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Sher in IN India, PK Pakistan, US United States 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Sheru 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 1.2K | Sher | 123 |
| PK Pakistan | #53 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Sher | 117 |
| AF Afghanistan | #633 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Sher | 16 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Sher | 41 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 497 | Sher | 53 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | — | Sher | 23 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #383 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Sher | 49 |
| US United States | — | 1,356as Sher | 1 in 245K | 3.3K | Sher | 138 |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Saroo Brierleyb. 1981INnot in their usual nameAustralian writer (born 1981)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sheru a male or female name?
- Sheru 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Sheru?
- Mondonomo estimates about 161 thousand people named Sher in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Sheru?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,356 people named Sher in 2020, about 1 in 245 thousand residents.
- How common is Sheru compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Sheru is the 53rd most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sheru?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheruThe 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, “Sheru” — ranked 4863rd in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.