Shehab
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 21 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ʃɛhæb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shehab is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 88th most common surname.
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 6.4K
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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 Shehab 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
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 named Shihab, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bahrain, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shihab in BD Bangladesh, IQ Iraq.
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shehab 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 | #467 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Shihab | 86 |
| EG Egypt | #422 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | listed | Shehab | 124 |
| IQ Iraq | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.4K | — | Shihab | 18 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | listed | Shehab | 68 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Shehab | 29 |
| KW Kuwait | #364 | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Shehab | 62 |
| BH Bahrain | #88 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Shehab | 40 |
| US United States | — | 289 | 1 in 1.2M | 451 | Shehab | 146 |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- Mohammed Shehabb. 1976AEEmirati snooker player
- Bahia Shehabb. 1977LBEgyptian-Lebanese visual artist and historian
- Melissab. 1982LBnot in their usual nameLebanese singer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 451 | #50,158 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 289 | #68,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 202 | #85,996 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Shehab?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛhæb/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- In which country does Shehab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Shihab in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shehab?
- In the United States, the national register counted 289 people named Shehab in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
- How common is Shehab compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shehab is the 467th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shehabThe 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, “Shehab” — the 467th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.