Shé
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shé is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country. Recorded meaning: has long being interested in names, having earnestly labored as a.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 1M
- FRFrance≈1 in 2.3M
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.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled She in FR France.
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)
has long being interested in names, having earnestly labored as a
Sources 4
- A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India
- Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2)
- YorùbáName Dictionary
- Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese (2007)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shé 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.
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: INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Shé 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 佘
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, lenited form of sé
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tli, blood
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In raw, gold.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shé mean, and where does it come from?
- has long being interested in names, having earnestly labored as a Recorded by A Genealogists Guide to Indian Names A Reference for First Names from India and Chinese Surnames Encyclopedia (Section 2) and 2 other sources.
- Is Shé a male or female name?
- Shé 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 Shé have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 people named Shé in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled she.
- Where is Shé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shé is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though France holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shé?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 10 people named Shé, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shé?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%A9The 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, “Shé”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.