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Shahida

Girls' name

Feminine form of Shahid

Shahida has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1970, with 9 recorded.

Babies named Shahida, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shahida: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Shahid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shahida means

Shahida is a feminine form of Shahid.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shahida is used in Arabic, Urdu, Bengali and Malay.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈʃaː.hi.da/ for Shahida.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Shahida is a feminine form of Shahid. Shahid has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shahid.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Shahida between 1970 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1970; its best national rank was #5,730 in 1970.

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 Shahida?

Shahida had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shahida 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahida. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shahidas were born

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

Median birth year
1988
About 37 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
35.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
135
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1980s — 35.6% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Shahida 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (9)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,730
1970

Spellings of Shahida

Shahida is not the most common spelling — Shania is, with 16.0% against Shahida's 0.14%.

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 Shahida is used

Across 1910–2025, Shahida was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,752,106 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 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. Shahida has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shahida around the world

Where Shahida 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
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    1975–1979
    #535
    in 1979
  • France
    2003–2024
    #6,461
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2008–2009
    #818
    in 2009

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

Shahida 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
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Best rank ever
#5,730
1970
Peak year
1970
9 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shahida

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

ShaidaSharidaShakidaShanidaShaquidaShaanviShakthiShanzayShaarviShayanaShaiviShalvaShaddaiShailiShaymaShanvikaShanylaSharviShaktiSharayaShainnaShamilaShaminaShanira

Sibling names for Shahida

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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