Shafique
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃefʲk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shafique is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 55th most common surname.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BHBahrain≈1 in 14K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 17K
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 Shafique 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈80,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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 Shafik in EG Egypt, UG Uganda.
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)
Shafique 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #55 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | 1 | Shafique | 107 |
| UG Uganda | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 1 | Shafik | 17 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 11K | listed | Shafik | 89 |
| BD Bangladesh | #451 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Shafique | 41 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Shafique | 34 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #816 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Shafique | 40 |
| ES Spain | — | 147 | 1 in 340K | 147 | Shafique | 22 |
| BH Bahrain | #961 | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Shafique | 7 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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)
- Ahmed Shafikb. 1970EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian film director
- Abdullah Shafiqueb. 1999PKPakistani cricketer
- Muhammad Farhan ShafiqueGBresearcher
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 147 | #20,913 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 147 | #20,787 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #945 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Shafique?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃefʲk/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- In which country does Shafique have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 80 thousand people named Shafique in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shafique.
- How common is the name Shafique?
- In Spain, the national register counted 147 people named Shafique, about 1 in 340 thousand residents.
- How common is Shafique compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shafique is the 55th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shafique?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shafiqueThe 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, “Shafique” — the 55th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.