Shihab
given name · Latin script
Meaning: flame, meteor, shooting star, star (see surat al-Saaffaat 37:10)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃihæb/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shihab is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country. In Bahrain it is the 88th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 3.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- KWKuwait≈1 in 5.6Kas Shehab
- EGEgypt≈1 in 6.4Kas Shehab
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 Shihab 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)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈52,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shehab in EG Egypt, KW Kuwait, BH Bahrain and 2 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(measured from records)
flame, meteor, shooting star, star (see surat al-Saaffaat 37:10). See Kaukab us. (f.)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shihab 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 |
| NO Norway | — | 94 | 1 in 58K | 94 | — | 4 |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
Shihab is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, flame, meteor, shooting star, star
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
flame; bright star
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
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)
- Shihab al-Din Suhrawardib. 1155IRPersian philosopher and founder of the school of Illuminationism
- Shihab al-Din al-Qarafib. 1228EGlegal scholar
- Shihab Rattansib. 2000GBTelevision broadcaster
- Shihab Hasanb. 2000BDresearcher
- Shihab Fayezb. 2002OMOmani swimmer
- Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawisecretary and biographer of the Khwarazmshah Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu
- Shihab al-TamimiIQIraqi journalist
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 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 94 | #16,301 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Shihab come from?
- flame, meteor, shooting star, star (see surat al-Saaffaat 37:10). See Kaukab us. (f.) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shihab?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃihæb/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What does the name Shihab mean?
- Recorded meaning: flame, meteor, shooting star, star (see surat al-Saaffaat 37:10).
- Is Shihab a male or female name?
- Shihab is a male 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 Shihab have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 52 thousand people named Shihab in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shihab.
- How common is the name Shihab?
- In Norway, the national register counted 94 people named Shihab, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Shihab compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shihab is the 467th most common surname of 12,312 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shihab?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shihabThe 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, “Shihab” — the 467th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.