Shamal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A hot, dry wind that blows across the Persian Gulf during the summer
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəmɑɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shamal is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sri Lanka than in any other country.
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 4.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 27K
- SESweden1 in 101K
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.
- Sri Lanka (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 98 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,700 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A hot, dry wind that blows across the Persian Gulf during the summer
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shamal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LK Sri Lanka | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.9K | — | Shamal | 14 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 324K | listed | Shamal | 17 |
| US United States | 274 | 1 in 1.2M | 240 | Shamal | 65 |
| SE Sweden | 101 | 1 in 101K | 101 | — | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 751K | 8 | Shamal | 32 |
| SG Singapore | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Shamal | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 28 | 1 in 27K | 28 | — | — |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 244K | — | Shamal | 9 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Shamal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Croatian, meteor. suh i topao vjetar Perzijskoga zaljeva
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Shamal Kumarb. 1979FJassociation football player from Fiji
- Shamal Georgeb. 1998GBEnglish association football player (born 1998)
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 34 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 240 | #31,336 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 101 | #8,503 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 80 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 79 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 79 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 78 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 77 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 76 | — |
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
- What does the name Shamal mean, and where does it come from?
- A hot, dry wind that blows across the Persian Gulf during the summer Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shamal?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəmɑɫ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shamal a male or female name?
- Shamal 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 Shamal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.7 thousand people named Shamal in Sri Lanka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shamal.
- How common is the name Shamal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 274 people named Shamal in 2020, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shamal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shamalThe 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, “Shamal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.