Shahrazad
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shahrazad has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2011. 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 2016, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Shahrazad, 2016
1 in 612,000
Shahrazad 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shahrazad?
Shahrazad had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shahrazad sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahrazad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shahrazads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahrazad was born before 2016 — so the typical Shahrazad is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Shahrazad 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
- —
- 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2016 (6)
- Years since peak
- 9
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Shahrazad around the world
Where Shahrazad 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 & Wales2020–2020#5,493in 2020
- France1989–2022#7,363in 2022
- South Australia2008–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shahrazad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shahrazad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shahrazad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.