Shahab
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shahab is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Persian male given name شهاب (šahâb).
- PKPakistan≈1 in 5.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 5.8K
- SASaudi Arabia≈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). 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
- 145 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 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:
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 transliteration of the Persian male given name شهاب (šahâb).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shahab 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 | #721 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 1 | Shahab | 69 |
| BD Bangladesh | #465 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Shahab | 57 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 1 | Shahab | 12 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Shahab | 36 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Shahab | 56 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #672 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Shahab | 64 |
| US United States | — | 959 | 1 in 347K | 957 | Shahab | 145 |
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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shahab 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.
red colour, spark of fire-
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Shahab Asgarib. 1945IRIranian actor
- Shahab Moradib. 1972IRTV celebrity and cleric
- Shahab Abbasib. 1973IRIranian actor and director
- Shahab Hosseinib. 1974IRIranian actor
- Shahab Ramezanb. 1979IRIranian composer
- Shahab Mozaffarib. 1984IRIranian singer
- Shahab al-Muhajirb. 1994AFleader of IS-KP
- Shahab Mihandoustrelated to cinema
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 52 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 521 | #44,416 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 336 | #60,045 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 207 | #84,310 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #947 |
| 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
- What does the name Shahab mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Persian male given name شهاب (šahâb). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Shahab a male or female name?
- Shahab is a male 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 Shahab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Shahab in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shahab.
- How common is the name Shahab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 959 people named Shahab in 2020, about 1 in 347 thousand residents.
- How common is Shahab compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shahab is the 721st most common given name of 77,659 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/shahabThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shahab” — the 721st most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.