Shaista
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shaista is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 355K
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 10K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈25,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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
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)
Shaista 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 | #309 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | listed | Shaista | 67 |
| CN China | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Shaista | 4 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Shaista | 4 |
| US United States | — | 937 | 1 in 355K | 931 | Shaista | 172 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 502K | — | Shaista | 18 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 135K | — | Shaista | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 78 | 1 in 131K | 78 | Shaista | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 74K | 254 | Shaista | 6 |
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: the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullahb. 1915PKPakistani diplomat (1915–2000)
- Shaista Gohir, Baroness Gohirb. 1969British women's rights campaigner
- Shayesta BedarINnot in their usual nameIndian Historian
- Shaista ShameemFJFijian lawyer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 931 | #13,032 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 254 | #4,015 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 78 | #10,092 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 50 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6 | #13,032 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Shaista a male or female name?
- Shaista 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 Shaista have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 25 thousand people named Shaista in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaista.
- How common is the name Shaista?
- In the United States, the national register counted 937 people named Shaista in 2020, about 1 in 355 thousand residents.
- How common is Shaista compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shaista is the 309th most common given name of 77,659 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/shaistaThe 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, “Shaista” — the 309th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.