Shaer
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shaer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 22Kas Shar(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 24Kas Shar
- AUAustralia≈1 in 30Kas Shar
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 Shaer 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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 260 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 named Shar, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est., as Shar
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shar in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 4 more.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shaer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 24K | 116 | Shar | 81 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Shaer | 61 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Shar | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Shar | 65 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Shaer | 28 |
| US United States | — | 929as Shar | 1 in 358K | 790 | Shar | 260 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 30K | 1 | Shar | 63 |
| NZ New Zealand | #883 | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Shar | 40 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Shar | 9 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
- Bat-Galim Shaerb. 1972ILIsraeli pedagogue
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 317 | #67,188 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 300 | #65,964 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 299 | #62,577 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 116 | #30,189 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Shaer have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Shar in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shaer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 929 people named Shar in 2020, about 1 in 358 thousand residents.
- How common is Shaer compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Shaer is the 883rd most common given name of 26,737 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/shaerThe 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, “Shaer” — the 883rd most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.