Shaheen

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in English: The shaheen falcon

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʃəˈhin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Shaheen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan≈1 in 3.7K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 97K
  • SYSyria≈1 in 3.6K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈180,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
320 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

Syria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ShaheenLatin(measured from records)
ชาฮีนThai(measured from records)

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)

The shaheen falcon

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Shaheen is read(measured from records)

Shaheen is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Urdu33%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Shaheen in Urdu.

  • English26%

    The shaheen falcon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic24%

    falcon

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • Hindi5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Shaheen in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shaheen 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.

Where Shaheen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈180,000 est.≈1 in 7.7K—Shaheen8
PK Pakistan#112≈63,000 est.≈1 in 3.7K—Shaheen80
BD Bangladesh#297≈28,000 est.≈1 in 5.9K—Shaheen64
SY Syria—≈5,300 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Shaheen18
US United States—3,4401 in 97K3.8KShaheen320
IL Israel—≈690 est.≈1 in 13K—Shaheen28

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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shaheen is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Šhãhëęñ, Šhąhěëñ, Šhähēēn, Shàhèéñ, Šhāhęęñ

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Canada

    Also written Šhãhéèñ

49 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Alfred Shaheen, b. 1922Jack Shaheen, b. 1935Mohammad Shaheen, b. 1938Jeanne Shaheen, b. 1947Simon Shaheen, b. 1955Adam Shaheen, b. 1964Saif Saaeed Shaheen, b. 1982Faiza Shaheen, b. 1983Adam Shaheen, b. 1993

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)

Formalمحترمہ Shaheen صاحبہ،Dear Ms Shaheen, (English)
Informalہیلو Shaheen،Hi Shaheen, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 56 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Shaheen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020203.8K#8,258
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020103.4K#9,458
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,350

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 Shaheen mean, and where does it come from?
The shaheen falcon Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Shaheen?
A machine transcription gives /ʃəˈhin/ (IPA) for Urdu.
What are other forms of the name Shaheen?
In the etymology graph, Şahin is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Shaheen have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 182 thousand people named Shaheen in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaheen.
How common is the name Shaheen?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,440 people named Shaheen in 2010, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.
How common is Shaheen compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Shaheen is the 112th most common surname of 51,489 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Shaheen” — the 112th most common surname in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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