Shaahid

given name · Latin script

Meaning: witness. laale dita! GI gall Wal

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shaahid is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • GYGuyana1 in 150K(measured from records)
  • ZASouth Africa≈1 in 340K
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 2.2M

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.

South Africa (inferred from the name graph)

≈170 people, est.

Sources
38 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 150K (inferred from the name graph)

Guyana

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

witness. laale dita! GI gall Wal

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shaahid 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.

Where Shaahid is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ZA South Africa≈170 est.≈1 in 340K—Shaahid14
US United States≈22 est.≈1 in 15M—Shaahid38
GB United Kingdom≈16 est.≈1 in 4.1M—Shaahid26
AU Australia≈9 est.≈1 in 2.8M—Shaahid10
MY Malaysia≈9 est.≈1 in 3.6M—Shaahid3
GY Guyana51 in 150K5—1
SG Singapore≈3 est.≈1 in 2.2M—Shaahid4

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: Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shaahid is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Urdu given name128 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Urdu, Hindi, English

    Also written Shahid, Sohid, Shohid, শহিদ, Shahidu

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Shaahid is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Arabic, witness; one who testifies.

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • witness

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Shaahid
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520255#589

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Shaahid mean, and where does it come from?
witness. laale dita! GI gall Wal Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
Is Shaahid a male or female name?
Shaahid 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 Shaahid have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 166 people named Shaahid in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaahid.
Where is Shaahid most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shaahid is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 150 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shaahid?
In Guyana, the national register counted 5 people named Shaahid in 2025, about 1 in 150 thousand residents.

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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, “Shaahid”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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