Shadrach
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Hananiah, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʃɑɗɾɑtʃ/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Shadrach is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 19K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 21K
- GHGhana≈1 in 24Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Hananiah, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shadrach 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Shadrach | 58 |
| GH Ghana | #367 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Shadrach | 32 |
| US United States | — | 728 | 1 in 457K | 726 | Shadrach | 173 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Shadrach | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 194K | — | Shadrach | 13 |
| SL Sierra Leone | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 76K | 1 | — | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 35 | 1 in 21K | 35 | — | 1 |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; NEC/ECSL — 2012 Councillor and Ordinary-MP/PCMP results tables. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Shadrach Bondb. 1773USAmerican politician: 1st Governor of Illinois; Illinois Territory congressman (1773-1832)
- Shadrach Minkinsb. 1814CAAmerican enslaved person
- Shadrach Jonesb. 1822GBDoctor, auctioneer, hotel-owner, impresario
- Shadrach Laycock Bowmanb. 1829USborn 1829; died 1906
- William Shadrach Knoxb. 1843USpolitician in Massachusetts, US (1843-1914)
- Shadrach Livingstone Jamesb. 1890AUAustralian activist (1890-1956)
- Shadrach Woodsb. 1923USAmerican architect (1923-1973)
- Shadrach Odhiambob. 1954SESwedish boxer
- Shadrach Eghanb. 1994GHGhanaian footballer
- Shadrach Ogieb. 2001IEIrish soccer player
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)32 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 184 | #98,553 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 183 | #104,276 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 179 | #94,676 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Shadrach mean, and where does it come from?
- Hananiah, one of the captives in the biblical Book of Daniel who came out of the fiery furnace unharmed. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Shadrach?
- In the etymology graph, Shadreck is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Shadrach?
- In Swahili /ʃɑɗɾɑtʃ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Shadrach a male or female name?
- Shadrach is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Shadrach have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Shadrach in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shadrach.
- How common is the name Shadrach?
- In the United States, the national register counted 728 people named Shadrach in 2020, about 1 in 457 thousand residents.
- How common is Shadrach compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Shadrach is the 367th most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shadrachThe 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, “Shadrach” — the 367th most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.