Shair
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shair is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 43K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 45K
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)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Shair 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 | #366 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 2 | Shair | 43 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Shair | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Shair | 15 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Shair | 11 |
| US United States | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | 202 | Shair | 33 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Shair | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24 | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 202 | #96,572 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 184 | #92,601 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 166 | #107,134 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 2 | #406 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Shair?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛɹ/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Shair a male or female name?
- Shair 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 Shair have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Shair in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shair.
- How common is the name Shair?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 24 people named Shair, about 1 in 141 thousand residents.
- How common is Shair compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shair is the 366th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shair?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shairThe 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, “Shair” — the 366th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.