Shahidi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Witness or eyewitness
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəˈhidi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shahidi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Afghanistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 987K(measured from records)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 16K
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 126K
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.
- Afghanistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Afghanistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Witness or eyewitness.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shahidi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AF Afghanistan | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | Shahidi | 3 |
| IN India | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 3.5M | 1 | Shahidi | 16 |
| US United States | 337 | 1 in 987K | 413 | Shahidi | 169 |
| IR Iran | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 260K | — | Shahidi | 41 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Shahidi | 21 |
| AO Angola | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 169K | — | Shahidi | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 58 | 1 in 176K | 58 | Shahidi | 12 |
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; naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
Shahidi 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.
In Swahili, witness (one who sees or has personal knowledge of something)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Borhan Şahidib. 1894CNnot in their usual nameChinese Tatar politician (1894–1989)
- Abdolvahab Shahidib. 1922IRIranian musician
- Esfandiar Shahidib. 1945IRIranian cinematographer
- Mohammad-Ali Shahidib. 1949IRIranian politician
- Yadollah Shahidib. 1949IRIranian film producer
- Davood Shahidib. 1951IRIranian artist
- Fereidoon Shahidib. 1951CACanadian chemist
- John Shahidib. 1979USAmerican businessman
- Hashmatullah Shahidib. 1994AFAfghan cricketer
- Yara Shahidib. 2000USAmerican actress
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 413 | #53,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 337 | #59,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 280 | #66,073 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 58 | #11,231 |
| AF Afghanistan | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #258 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- What does the name Shahidi mean, and where does it come from?
- Witness or eyewitness. Recorded by The African book of names.
- How do you pronounce Shahidi?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəˈhidi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Shahidi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Shahidi in Afghanistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shahidi.
- How common is the name Shahidi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 337 people named Shahidi in 2010, about 1 in 987 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shahidiThe 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, “Shahidi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.