Shanaj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register), 2002
Shanaj is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 132Kas Shanaz(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 673Kas Shanaz
- GYGuyana1 in 7.4Kas Shanaz
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 Shanaj 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,500 named Shanaz, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana, as Shanaz
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shanaz in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BD Bangladesh and 6 more.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shanaj 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #823 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Shanaz | 28 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 192K | listed | Shanaz | 21 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 274K | — | Shanaz | 39 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Shanaz | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 49 | Shanaz | 90 |
| US United States | — | 494as Shanaz | 1 in 673K | 489 | Shanaz | 158 |
| GY Guyana | #719 | 101as Shanaz | 1 in 7.4K | 101 | Shanaz | 1 |
| BH Bahrain | — | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Shanaz | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Shanaz | 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 6 | #203,151 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shanaj a male or female name?
- Shanaj 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 Shanaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.5 thousand people named Shanaz in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shanaj most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Shanaj itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Guyana's: the national register counts about 1 in 7.4 thousand people named Shanaz.
- How common is the name Shanaj?
- In the United States, the national register counted 494 people named Shanaz in 2020, about 1 in 673 thousand residents.
- How common is Shanaj compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shanaj is the 823rd most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shanaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shanajThe 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, “Shanaj” — the 823rd most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.