Sahab
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Cloud, the
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/səhæb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sahab is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.2Kas Shahab(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.8Kas Shahab
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 17Kas Shahab
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 Sahab 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
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 named Shahab, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shahab in PK Pakistan, US United States, IR Iran and 4 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(measured from records)
Cloud, the
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Islamic Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Sahab 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 | #721 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 1 | Shahab | 69 |
| BD Bangladesh | #465 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Shahab | 57 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Shahab | 12 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Shahab | 36 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Shahab | 56 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #672 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Shahab | 64 |
| US United States | — | 959as Shahab | 1 in 347K | 957 | Shahab | 145 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Sahab | 11 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
Sahab 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 Arabic, clouds
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.
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)
Attested in 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Sahab mean, and where does it come from?
- Cloud, the Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
- How do you pronounce Sahab?
- A machine transcription gives /səhæb/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Sahab a male or female name?
- Sahab 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 Sahab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Shahab in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Sahab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 959 people named Shahab in 2020, about 1 in 347 thousand residents.
- How common is Sahab compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Sahab is the 721st most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Sahab?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sahabThe 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, “Sahab” — the 721st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.