Shair
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), 2018
Shair is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 33K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 141K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 180Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,600 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 2 | Shair | 43 |
| IN India | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 505K | 25 | Shair | 28 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Shair | 3 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Shair | 15 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Shair | 1 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Shair | 11 |
| 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; 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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Shair?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.6 thousand people named Shair in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shair. After it come India, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and Kyrgyzstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 406th in Pakistan (Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP)). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.