Shahla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: grey-eyed with a red shade; narcissus flower
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃeɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shahla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 869(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 194K
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 37Kas Шахла
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 Shahla 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.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 869 (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Шахла in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Shakhla in GE Georgia.
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)
grey-eyed with a red shade; narcissus flower
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shahla 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | #168 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 869 | — | Shahla | 41 |
| AF Afghanistan | #640 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | 2 | Shahla | 7 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 71K | listed | Shahla | 28 |
| US United States | — | 1,716 | 1 in 194K | 1.7K | Shahla | 223 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Шахла | 97 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 37K | 128 | Шахла | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 408 | 1 in 25K | 408 | Shahla | 17 |
| GE Georgia | — | 281as შახლა | 1 in 14K | 281 | Shakhla | 2 |
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; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Shahla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
with dark grey eyes.
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
A want, need,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
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)
- Shahla Riahib. 1927IRIranian actress (1926–2019)
- Shahla Lahijib. 1942IRIranian writer
- Shehla Ziab. 1947PKnot in their usual namePakistani lawyer and activist
- Chahla Chafiqb. 1954IRnot in their usual nameIranian writer and sociologist
- Shahla Ujaylib. 1976SYSyrian writer (born 1976)
- Shahla Humbatovab. 1976AZAzerbaijani Human rights lawyer
- Shehla Rashid Shorab. 1988INnot in their usual nameIndian student activist
- Shahlo Mahmudovab. 2000UZnot in their usual nameUzbekistani politician
- Shahla Ayamahactress
- Shahlo Salayevanot in their usual namemusician
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.7K | #8,445 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 408 | #3,195 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 378 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 375 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 369 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 361 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 355 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 341 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 336 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 326 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 324 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 315 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Shahla mean, and where does it come from?
- grey-eyed with a red shade; narcissus flower Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shahla?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃeɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shahla a male or female name?
- Shahla is a female 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 Shahla have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Shahla in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shahla.
- How common is the name Shahla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,716 people named Shahla in 2020, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
- How common is Shahla compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Shahla is the 168th most common given name of 28,848 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/shahlaThe 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, “Shahla” — the 168th most common given name in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.