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Shabana

Girls' name

Feminine form of Shaban

Shabana has been given to 164 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1985, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Shabana, 2002

1 in 747,000

Shabana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shabana: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Shaban

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shabana means

Shabana is a feminine form of Shaban.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shabana is used in Urdu.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shabana → Shaban. The family’s meaning is “Sha'aban”, recorded in Albanian with the source elements šaʕab.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shaban.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 164 girls were recorded with the name Shabana between 1975 and 2002. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1985; its best national rank was #6,847 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shabana?

Shabana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2002
1 in 747,000
5 of 3,737,275 births
Among girls only
1 in 359,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2002
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shabana sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shabana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shabanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shabana was born before 1988 — so the typical Shabana is around 37 today.

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.0% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Shabana rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (10)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,847
1985

Spellings of Shabana

Shabana is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 21.6% against Shabana's 0.08%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shabana is used

Across 1910–2025, Shabana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,901,278 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shabana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shabana around the world

Where Shabana ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Scotland
    1977–1988
    #511
    in 1988
  • France
    1983–1999
    #4,570
    in 1999
  • Canada
    1992–2001
    #2,611
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1997–1997
    #681
    in 1997

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shabana by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,847
1985
Peak year
1985
10 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2002
All-time count
164
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shabana

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Shabana

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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