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Shahad

#11,771 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Shahd

Shahad has been given to 277 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #11,771 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Shahad, 2025

1 in 414,000

Shahad over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010203018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shahad: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Shahd

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shahad means

Shahad is a alternate transcription of Shahd.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shahad is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃahd/ for Shahad.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shahad → Shahd. The family’s meaning is “honey”, recorded in the naming reference for Shahd.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shahd.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 272 girls were recorded with the name Shahad between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,756 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,442 in 2020 to #11,771 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,362 in 2015 to #11,771 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Shahad between 2006 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2006; its best national rank was #13,676 in 2006.

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.

How common is Shahad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,771
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shahad 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shahads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahad was born before 2015 — so the typical Shahad is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
272
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Choose a decade

2010s — 54.0% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Shahad 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
+220
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,329
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,409
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
36.4%
Peak was 2016 (22)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,756
2018

Spellings of Shahad

Shahad is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 57.6% against Shahad's 0.53%.

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 Shahad is used

Across 1910–2025, Shahad was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,495,549 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 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. Shahad has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shahad around the world

Where Shahad 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
    2000–2025
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • France
    2017–2020
    #7,476
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2004–2017
    #1,790
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1998–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Shahad by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,329
Best rank ever
#5,756
2018
Peak year
2016
22 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
272
Count in 2025
8

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,676
2006
Peak year
2006
5 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shahad

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

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Sibling names for Shahad

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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