Shamila
given name · Latin script
Meaning: complete, comprehensive
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəmɪɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shamila is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 141K
- USUnited States1 in 765K
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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sri Lanka, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
complete, comprehensive
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shamila 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #471 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Shamila | 14 |
| LK Sri Lanka | #487 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Shamila | 37 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Shamila | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | #227 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 141K | listed | Shamila | 28 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Shamila | 32 |
| US United States | — | 435 | 1 in 765K | 435 | Shamila | 137 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 80 | 1 in 42K | 80 | Shamila | 10 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shamila 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 Arabic, natural disposition; virtue; young shoot; bud
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Shamila Kohestanib. 1988AFAfghani female association football player (1988-)
- Shamila Shirzadb. 2007Afghan Iranian actress
- Shamila N. ChaudharyUSAmerican government official
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 36 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 435 | #22,738 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 80 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 72 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 5 | — |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 2012 | 1 | — |
| 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
- What does the name Shamila mean, and where does it come from?
- complete, comprehensive Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shamila?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəmɪɫə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Shamila a male or female name?
- Shamila 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 Shamila have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Shamila in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shamila.
- How common is the name Shamila?
- In the United States, the national register counted 435 people named Shamila in 2020, about 1 in 765 thousand residents.
- How common is Shamila compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Shamila is the 471st most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shamila?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shamilaThe 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, “Shamila” — the 471st most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.