Shuja
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃujə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shuja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: courageous, bold, brave.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
- AFAfghanistan≈1 in 25K
- AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 51K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 66 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
courageous, bold, brave
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shuja 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 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | listed | Shuja | 66 |
| AF Afghanistan | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Shuja | 6 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Shuja | 22 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Shuja | 36 |
| US United States | 150 | 1 in 2.2M | 220 | Shuja | 59 |
| OM Oman | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Shuja | 7 |
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; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shuja is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swahili, Hydra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, courageous, bold, brave. A sahaabi.**’ See Humaam ales, brave
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, courageous, bold, brave
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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.
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 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 220 | #90,184 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 174 | #103,181 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 122 | #128,797 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Shuja mean, and where does it come from?
- courageous, bold, brave Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shuja?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃujə/ (IPA) for Urdu.
- Is Shuja a male or female name?
- Shuja 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 Shuja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Shuja in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shuja.
- How common is the name Shuja?
- In the United States, the national register counted 150 people named Shuja in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shujaThe 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, “Shuja”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.