Shiraz
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Shiraz; name associated with the Persian city of Shiraz
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃɪɹɑːz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shiraz is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 36K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 67K
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 Shiraz 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.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 224 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, 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 Շիրազ in AM Armenia.
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)
Shiraz; name associated with the Persian city of Shiraz.
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shiraz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | listed | — | 62 |
| US United States | — | 708 | 1 in 470K | 541 | Shiraz | 224 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 125K | 191 | — | 107 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 67K | listed | — | — |
| AM Armenia | #625 | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Շիրազ | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 91 | 1 in 112K | 91 | — | 10 |
| GY Guyana | — | 21 | 1 in 36K | 21 | — | 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shiraz 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.
cheese, famous city in
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Portuguese, Shiraz (variety of black grape)
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)
- Hovhannes Shirazb. 1915AMArmenian poet (1915–1984)
- Shiraz Shivjib. 1947TZTanzanian computer designer
- Shiraz Hassanalib. 1949KEbadminton player
- Shiraz Minwallab. 1972INIndian physicist
- Shiraz Talb. 1974ILIsraeli actress
- Melanie Shirazb. 1999ILIsraeli model
- Shiraz Ahmedscreenwriter
- Shiraz TzarfatiFRIsraeli-French actress
- Shiraz AdamCAvoice actor
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)
Attested in 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 191 | #21,947 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 166 | #112,515 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 116 | #143,149 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #70,338 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Shiraz mean, and where does it come from?
- Shiraz; name associated with the Persian city of Shiraz. Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shiraz?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɪɹɑːz/ (IPA) for Persian.
- In which country does Shiraz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Shiraz in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shiraz?
- In the United States, the national register counted 708 people named Shiraz in 2020, about 1 in 470 thousand residents.
- How common is Shiraz compared with other names?
- In Armenia, Shiraz is the 625th most common given name of 7,577 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shiraz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shirazThe 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, “Shiraz” — the 625th most common given name in Armenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.