Shehri
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Shehri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Saudi Arabia than in any other country.
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 4.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 70K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 176K
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 83 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Shehri 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA Saudi Arabia | #521 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | Shehri | 83 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 478K | Shehri | 2 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 176K | Shehri | 13 |
| US United States | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 6.3M | Shehri | 31 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | Shehri | 9 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 70K | Shehri | 4 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 296K | Shehri | 9 |
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.
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)
Shehri 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 English, A Modern South Arabian language spoken in southern Oman
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mohand al-Shehrib. 1979SA9/11 hijacker (1979–2001)
- Saad Al-Shehrib. 1980SAassociation football player
- Yahia Al-Shehrib. 1985SAassociation football player
- Fabio Almeida de Jesusb. 1986BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian association football player
- Yahya Al-Shehrib. 1990SASaudi Arabian footballer
- Ahmed Al-Shehrib. 1993SASaudi association football player
- Ibrahim Al-Shehrib. 1996SAassociation football player
- Ditmar Shehrib. 1997ALAlbanian association football player
- Fahad al-ShehriSaudi Arabian terrorist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 3 sources across 2 countries.
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
- In which country does Shehri have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Shehri in Saudi Arabia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shehri.
- How common is the name Shehri?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8,100 people in Saudi Arabia have Shehri as their first surname, about 1 in 4.2 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
- How common is Shehri compared with other names?
- In Saudi Arabia, Shehri is the 521st most common surname of 121,290 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shehri?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shehriThe 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, “Shehri” — the 521st most common surname in Saudi Arabia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.