Shabbat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: The Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, commemorating God's rest on the seventh day in the book of Genesis
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Shabbat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 3.8Kas שבת(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 42Kas שבת
- QAQatar≈1 in 5.4Kas שבת
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 Shabbat 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
2,268 named שבת, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, as שבת
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled שבת in MA Morocco, QA Qatar, BG Bulgaria, Shabat in US United States, RO Romania and שבט in IL Israel.
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)The Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, commemorating God's rest on the seventh day in the book of Genesis.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shabbat 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #137 | 2,268as שבת | 1 in 3.8K | 2.3K | שבט | 64 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | שבת | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | שבת | 1 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Shabat | 3 |
| US United States | — | 145as Shabat | 1 in 2.3M | 145 | Shabat | 97 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈89 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | שבת | 3 |
2,268 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017, counting the spelling שבת. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Shabbat 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 English, Jewish Sabbath
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In French, Jewish Shabbat, biblical seventh day
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Shabbat mean, and where does it come from?
- The Jewish Sabbath, from sundown Friday to nightfall Saturday, commemorating God's rest on the seventh day in the book of Genesis. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Shabbat?
- In the etymology graph, Sabbath, Sabbat and Shabes are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Shabbat have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named שבת, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shabbat most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Shabbat itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Israel's: the national register counts about 1 in 3.8 thousand people named שבת.
- How common is the name Shabbat?
- In Israel, the national register counted 2,268 people named שבת in 2017, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Shabbat compared with other names?
- In Israel, Shabbat is the 137th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shabbatThe 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, “Shabbat” — the 137th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.