Shirzad

surname · Latin script

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

/ʃiɹzæd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Shirzad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 573(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 27K
  • SESweden1 in 40K

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.

Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)

≈64,000 people, est.

Sources
94 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 573 (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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)

Shirzad 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 Shirzad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AF Afghanistan#404≈64,000 est.≈1 in 5731Shirzad9
IR Iran—≈280 est.≈1 in 309K—Shirzad16
SE Sweden—2551 in 40K255Shirzad8
TR Türkiye—≈250 est.≈1 in 329K—Shirzad5
DE Germany—≈220 est.≈1 in 362K—Shirzad41
NO Norway—2021 in 27K202—5
CH Switzerland—1251 in 67K125—2
DK Denmark—711 in 83K71——

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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

Shirzad is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Pashto surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, United States, United Kingdom, Iran

    Also written Shīrzād

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States, Canada

    Also written Šhirzad

  • Urdu surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, United States, Netherlands, Türkiye

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi

    Also written Šhirzad

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Shīrzād

  • Turkish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Afghanistan, Iran, Azerbaijan

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Şhirzad, Shîrzâd

32 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)

19401960198020002020Ahmad Shirzad, b. 1958Faryar Shirzad, b. 1965Shamila Shirzad, b. 2007

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)

FormalDear Shirzad,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Shirzad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—59#12,174
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202042—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201940—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201840—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201740—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—38#13,815
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201636—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201332—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201232—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201131—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201031—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)200931—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Shirzad?
A machine transcription gives /ʃiɹzæd/ (IPA) for Pashto.
In which country does Shirzad have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 64 thousand people named Shirzad in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shirzad.
How common is the name Shirzad?
In Sweden, the national register counted 255 people named Shirzad, about 1 in 40 thousand residents.
How common is Shirzad compared with other names?
In Afghanistan, Shirzad is the 404th most common surname of 11,723 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, “Shirzad” — the 404th most common surname in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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