Shahbaz
#13,581 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shahbaz has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #13,581 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Shahbaz, 2025
1 in 663,000
Shahbaz over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shahbaz?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,581
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shahbaz sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahbaz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shahbazs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahbaz was born before 2000 — so the typical Shahbaz is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 36.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 63
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Shahbaz 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
- +332
- Places climbed
- 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
- 50.0%
- Peak was 1995 (10)
- Years since peak
- 30
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.2% average annual change
Shahbaz around the world
Where Shahbaz 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 & Wales1996–2025#3,684in 2025
- Scotland1983–1983#314in 1983
- Canada2015–2024#3,231in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shahbaz by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shahbaz
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shahbaz
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.