Shee
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Obsolete spelling of she (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Shee is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kenya than in any other country.
- KEKenya≈1 in 15Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 342K
- DKDenmark1 in 489K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Kenya (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,700 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kenya, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Obsolete spelling of she.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where the surname Shee is found
(measured from records)Shee 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KE Kenya | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Shee | 8 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Shee | 9 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Shee | 5 |
| US United States | 509 | 1 in 654K | 1K | Shee | 34 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Shee | 10 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 421K | — | Shee | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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)Shee 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 dag, season 2. describes the peak period of rainfall when it is sometimes impossible to go to farm place (for a purpose) [without ‘when the rainy season comes’ (‘situation in the rainy season’ - nominal phrase) KO paabu shee ‘destination’
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In dag, place marker] lower back, lumbar region, yiyirigu lubu shee ‘airport’ ‘flying, thing falling place’
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In nv, by means of me, because of me
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bej, one hundred
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In gv, fairy
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)- Henri Shéeb. 1739FRFrench politician (1739-1820)
- Martin Archer Sheeb. 1769IEIrish painter and president of the Royal Academy (1769–1850)
- Sir George Shee, 2nd Baronetb. 1785IEIrish diplomat (1785-1870)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)20 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shee mean, and where does it come from?
- Obsolete spelling of she. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shee?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.7 thousand people named Shee in Kenya, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shee. After it come Malaysia, Tanzania, United States and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shee?
- In the United States, the national register counted 509 people named Shee in 2010, about 1 in 654 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shee?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sheeThe 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, “Shee”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.