Shabbir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Tanzanian spellings Shabbar, Shabbier, Shabir, Shabiro
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shabbir is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4.1K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 5.5Kfew records
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 Shabbir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈300,000 named Sabbir, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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 Sabbir in BD Bangladesh, BH Bahrain.
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)Tanzanian spellings Shabbar, Shabbier, Shabir, Shabiro.
Cited for this meaning 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shabbir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #43 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 543 | listed | Sabbir | 131 |
| PK Pakistan | #80 | ≈63,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 4 | Shabbir | 122 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #506 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 13K | listed | Shabbir | 45 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #446 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | — | Shabbir | 72 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Shabbir | 13 |
| KW Kuwait | #382 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 4.1K | — | Shabbir | 29 |
| US United States | — | 711 | 1 in 468K | 751 | Shabbir | 143 |
| BH Bahrain | #468 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Sabbir | 10 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the islamic-names-dictionary-2005 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)Shabbir is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, religious
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
Biblical, name of a son of Aaron.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
ood; virtuous, son of
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Pious,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
In Arabic, son of Prophet Harun, by which name Muhammad (s) is said to have called his grandson Husayn.** Allama Shabbir Ahmad Usmani (uthmaani) (1887-1949): "an ‘alim from Deoband...In November 1945 at Calcutta, such ‘ulama founded the Jam‘iyyat al-
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)- Shabbir Ahmad Usmanib. 1887INPakistani islamic scholar
- Josh Malihabadib. 1898INnot in their usual nameShayar-e-Inqalab (1894-1982)
- Shabbir Sharifb. 1943PKPakistani soldier (1943-1971)
- Shabbir Ahmedb. 1947USwriter
- Shabbir Kumarb. 1954INIndian singer
- Shabbir Alib. 1956INIndian footballer and football manager
- Shabbir Janb. 1960PKactor
- Shabbir Akhtarb. 1960PKBritish philosopher
- Shabbir Ahmedb. 1976PKPakistani cricketer
- Shabbir AhmedINIndian lyricist
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)45 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 711 | #15,999 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Dictionary of Islamic Names (2005) | — | — | — |
| SA Saudi Arabia | Muslim Baby Names (Nishāt, 2000) | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- What does the name Shabbir mean, and where does it come from?
- Tanzanian spellings Shabbar, Shabbier, Shabir, Shabiro. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Shabbir a male or female name?
- Shabbir is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: India (India Names Dataset), United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Spain (INE).
- In which country does Shabbir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 300 thousand people named Sabbir in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shabbir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 711 people named Shabbir in 2020, about 1 in 468 thousand residents.
- How common is Shabbir compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shabbir is the 43rd most common given name of 29,323 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/shabbirThe 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, “Shabbir” — the 43rd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.