Shaman
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A traditional faith healer (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈʃɑːmən/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Shaman is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- INIndia≈1 in 160K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 170K
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 54 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 163K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
India, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Shaman
- English:/ˈʃɑːmən/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A traditional faith healer.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shaman 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.
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)- shAmAn Magic MusicUAUkrainian hip-hop artist
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shaman mean, and where does it come from?
- A traditional faith healer. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shaman?
- In English /ˈʃɑːmən/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Shaman a male or female name?
- Shaman is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Shaman?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Shaman in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaman. After it come Pakistan, United States, Malaysia and Australia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shaman?
- In the United States, the national register counted 218 people named Shaman in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shamanThe 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, “Shaman” — ranked 147086th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.