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Shahid

#13,583 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Shahid has been given to 716 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #13,583 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Shahid, 2025

1 in 663,000

Shahid over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shahid: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shahid means

Shahid has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Shahid

One of the source’s documented entries for Shahid records a meaning of witness.

One of the source’s documented entries for Shahid records a meaning of martyr, witness.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 716 boys were recorded with the name Shahid between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2000; its best national rank was #2,546 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,416 in 2020 to #13,583 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,255 in 2015 to #13,583 in 2025.

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 Shahid?

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
#13,583
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shahid sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahid. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shahids were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahid was born before 1997 — so the typical Shahid is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
22.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
716
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Choose a decade

1990s — 22.2% of all recorded uses (159).

Is Shahid 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
−3,859
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−6,167
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,328
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.8%
Peak was 2000 (24)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,546
1979

Spellings of Shahid

Shahid is not the most common spelling — Khalid is, with 22.3% against Shahid's 2.0%.

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 Shahid is used

Across 1910–2025, Shahid was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 426,028 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 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. Shahid has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shahid around the world

Where Shahid 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
    1996–2023
    #3,113
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1976–1980
    #275
    in 1980
  • France
    1999–2025
    #2,353
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1994–2015
    #2,735
    in 2015
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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.

Shahid by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,583
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,167
Best rank ever
#2,546
1979
Peak year
2000
24 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
716
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Shahid

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

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Sibling names for Shahid

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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