Shamas
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shamas is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.8Kas Shams(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 209Kas Shamus
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 2.9Kas Shams
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 Shamas 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 named Shams, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est., as Shams
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shams in PK Pakistan, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 2 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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shamas 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 | #226 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | listed | Shams | 84 |
| BD Bangladesh | #733 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.3K | — | Shams | 75 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Shamas | 9 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Shams | 12 |
| US United States | — | 1,588as Shamus | 1 in 209K | 1.6K | Shams | 109 |
| SE Sweden | — | 436as Shams | 1 in 23K | 436 | Shams | 8 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Shamas 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 io, present of shamar
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shams ibn Uthmanb. 591SASahaba
- Laura Annawyn Shamasb. 1957USAmerican writer and mythologist
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 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 311 | #68,212 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 231 | #81,772 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 211 | #83,004 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 33 | #17,678 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3 | #54,378 |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Shamas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Shams in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shamas?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,588 people named Shamus in 2020, about 1 in 209 thousand residents.
- How common is Shamas compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shamas is the 226th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shamas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shamasThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shamas” — the 226th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.