Shaheed
#11,773 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaheed has been given to 1,138 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #11,773 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Shaheed, 2025
1 in 553,000
Shaheed 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaheed?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,773
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaheed 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaheed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaheeds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaheed was born before 1995 — so the typical Shaheed is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 32.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,138
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (371).
Is Shaheed 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
- −2,050
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −5,209
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,162
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.46×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 10.0%
- Peak was 1994 (60)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shaheed
Shaheed is not the most common spelling — Saeed is, with 26.4% against Shaheed's 16.0%.
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 Shaheed is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaheed was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 116,189 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 3New York1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shaheed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaheed around the world
Where Shaheed 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 & Wales1996–2017#4,812in 2017
- France2010–2021#5,248in 2021
- Canada2002–2002#1,817in 2002
- South Australia1974–1988#476in 1988
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.
Shaheed by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shaheed
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaheed
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.