Shă
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shă is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia1 in 958K(measured from records)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5M
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.6M
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.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)
1,384 people
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sha in EG Egypt, IN India, US United States and 2 more, Shã in DZ Algeria and Shä in LY Libya.
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 across 33 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shă 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1,384 | 1 in 958K | 1.4K | Sha | 59 |
| US United States | — | 1,058 | 1 in 314K | 1.5K | Sha | 49 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈69 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Sha | 32 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 650K | — | Shã | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | Sha | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 27 | 1 in 206K | 44 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 22 | — | 3 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 560K | — | Shä | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #202 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Sha | 58 |
1,384 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
Shă 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 nmy, to sense
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
- In which country does Shă have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Shă, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sha.
- Where is Shă most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shă is densest in Finland — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shă?
- In India, the national register counted 1,384 people named Shă, about 1 in 958 thousand residents.
- How common is Shă compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Shă is the 202nd most common surname of 46,019 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shă?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C4%83The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Shă” — the 202nd most common surname in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.