Shabnam
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A female given name of Indian usage
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəbnəm/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shabnam is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 3K
- PKPakistan≈1 in 25K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 219 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Шабнам in TJ Tajikistan, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
A female given name of Indian usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shabnam 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | #284 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Shabnam | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | #448 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 25K | listed | Shabnam | 43 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Shabnam | 41 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #331 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Shabnam | 30 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Шабнам | 10 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #303 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 3K | listed | Шабнам | 7 |
| US United States | — | 1,794 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Shabnam | 219 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; the uz-ismlarim register. 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)
Shabnam 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, dew, a pendant of pearls
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shabnam Romanib. 1928PKPakistani poet
- Shabnam Shakeelb. 1942PKPakistani poet, academic
- Shabnam Mausib. 1955INIndian politician and hijra activist
- Shabnam Toloueib. 1971IRIranian actress, theatre director and playwright
- Shabnam Moghaddamib. 1972IRIranian actress
- Shabnam Gholikhanib. 1977IRIranian actress
- Shabnam Farshadjoob. 1978IRIranian actress
- Shabnam Surayyob. 1981TJTajikistani singer
- Shabnam Ghorbanib. 1989IRIranian actor
- Shabnam VirmaniINIndian film director
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)
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 48 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,151 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 7 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3 | #8,151 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ismlarim.uz — Uzbek given names | — | — | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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 Shabnam mean, and where does it come from?
- A female given name of Indian usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Shabnam?
- In the etymology graph, Şebnem is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Shabnam?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəbnəm/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shabnam a male or female name?
- Shabnam is a female 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 Shabnam have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Shabnam in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shabnam.
- How common is the name Shabnam?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,794 people named Shabnam in 2020, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
- How common is Shabnam compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Shabnam is the 284th most common given name of 21,469 given names 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/shabnamThe 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, “Shabnam” — the 284th most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.