Shakib

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Patient,

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/ʃækɪb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Shakib is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.2Kas Sakib(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 503Kas Saqib
  • AFAfghanistan≈1 in 5.9K

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 Shakib 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.

Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)

≈140,000 named Sakib, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
141 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Afghanistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SakibLatin(measured from records)
সাকিবBengali(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sakib in BD Bangladesh, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia and 1 more and Saqib in PK Pakistan.

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)

Patient,

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of Islamic Names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shakib 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.

Where Shakib is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BD Bangladesh#76≈140,000 est.≈1 in 1.2KlistedSakib99
AF Afghanistan—≈6,200 est.≈1 in 5.9K2Shakib9
PK Pakistan—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 120K1Saqib19
SA Saudi Arabia—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 29K—Sakib19
US United States—661as Saqib1 in 503K654Sakib141
OM Oman#679≈180 est.≈1 in 27K—Sakib4
SI Slovenia—99as Sakib1 in 21K99—1

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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; SURS — resident population given names; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shakib is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Shakīb

  • Pashto given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Afghanistan, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Shakīb

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Gabon, Belgium

    Also written Shâķîb, Shakīb

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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)

Informalনমস্কার Shakib,Hi Shakib, (English)

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 33 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Shakib
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020179#106,101
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010140#123,064
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000116#134,037
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Shakib mean, and where does it come from?
Patient, Recorded by Dictionary of Islamic Names.
How do you pronounce Shakib?
A machine transcription gives /ʃækɪb/ (IPA) for Bangla.
Is Shakib a male or female name?
Shakib 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 Shakib have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 138 thousand people named Sakib in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Shakib?
In the United States, the national register counted 661 people named Saqib in 2020, about 1 in 503 thousand residents.
How common is Shakib compared with other names?
In Bangladesh, Shakib is the 76th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.

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The 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, “Shakib” — the 76th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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