Shamsa
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sunlight; from Arabic shams, "sun"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəmsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shamsa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 756K(measured from records)
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 9.3K
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, 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(measured from records)
sunlight; from Arabic shams, "sun"
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shamsa 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 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | listed | Shamsa | 34 |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Shamsa | 18 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Shamsa | 4 |
| KE Kenya | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Shamsa | 12 |
| SY Syria | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Shamsa | 3 |
| US United States | 440 | 1 in 756K | 440 | Shamsa | 102 |
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; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. 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)
Shamsa 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.
Shadiya
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
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)
- Shamsa Araweelob. 1993SOSomalian-British FGM campaigner
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 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 440 | #22,581 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 5 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- In which country does Shamsa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Shamsa in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shamsa.
- What does the name Shamsa mean, and where does it come from?
- sunlight; from Arabic shams, "sun" Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shamsa?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəmsə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Shamsa a male or female name?
- Shamsa 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.
- How common is the name Shamsa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 440 people named Shamsa in 2020, about 1 in 756 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shamsa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shamsaThe 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, “Shamsa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.