Shä
surname · Latin script
Shä is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 206K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 273K
- USUnited States1 in 314K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- 1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)
1,384 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sha in EG Egypt, IN India, US United States and 2 more, Shã in DZ Algeria and Shà in TN Tunisia.
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 across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Shä is found
(measured from records)Shä 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 1,384 | 1 in 958K | 1.4K | Sha | 59 |
| US United States | — | 1,058 | 1 in 314K | 1.5K | Sha | 49 |
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 285K | — | Shã | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2M | — | Sha | 15 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Sha | 32 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 292K | — | Shà | 4 |
| LY Libya | — | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 220K | — | Shä | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 27 | 1 in 206K | 44 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | — | 20 | 1 in 273K | 22 | — | 3 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #202 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | — | Sha | 58 |
1,384 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Shä?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Shä, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sha. After it come United States, Algeria, Pakistan and Egypt; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shä most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shä is densest in Finland — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shä?
- In India, the national register counted 1,384 people named Shä, about 1 in 958 thousand residents.
- How common is Shä compared with other names?
- In the United Arab Emirates, Shä is the 202nd most common surname of 46,019 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shä?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%A4The 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, “Shä” — the 202nd most common surname in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.