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Shahzad

#4,514 in 2025Boys' name

Prince, son of the king

Shahzad has been given to 184 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #4,514 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Shahzad, 2025

1 in 144,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shahzad: meaning, origin, and history

Prince, son of the king

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shahzad means

Shahzad means “prince, son of the king”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 184 boys were recorded with the name Shahzad between 1977 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 23 in 2025; its best national rank was #4,514 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,952 in 2020 to #4,514 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,440 in 2015 to #4,514 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 Shahzad?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,514
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shahzad 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 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahzad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shahzads were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahzad was born before 2017 — so the typical Shahzad is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
184
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 38.6% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Shahzad 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
+3,708
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,438
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+5,926
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (23)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,514
2025

Spellings of Shahzad

Shahzad is not the most common spelling — Shaheed is, with 55.8% against Shahzad's 9.0%.

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.

Shahzad around the world

Where Shahzad 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
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1978–1978
    #271
    in 1978
  • France
    2023–2025
    #6,106
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Shahzad by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,514
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,438
Best rank ever
#4,514
2025
Peak year
2025
23 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
184
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Shahzad

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

SharbelShaddaiSharvinSharvilShazadShahramShaaravShailenShaheerShammahShahzaibShakaiShahzainShahmeerShahirShalevShahbazShazainShashwatShaheenShahmirShariefShadeedShahan

Sibling names for Shahzad

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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