Shazar
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries
Shazar is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael1 in 88Kas שזר
- OMOman≈1 in 140Kfew recordsas שזר
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 Shazar itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
99 named שזר, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled שזר in IL Israel, US United States, CL Chile and 1 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)Shazar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 99as שזר | 1 in 88K | 99 | שזר | 20 |
| OM Oman | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 144K | — | שזר | 1 |
| CL Chile | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | שזר | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | שזר | 18 |
99 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shazar a male or female name?
- Shazar is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Shazar have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 99 people named שזר, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shazar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shazar is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shazar?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 3 people named Shazar in 2024, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shazar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shazarThe 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, “Shazar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.