Shahzeb
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shahzeb has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 1998, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Shahzeb, 2003
1 in 475,000
Shahzeb 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shahzeb?
Shahzeb had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 475,000
- 8 of 3,801,425 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 247,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 329,370 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shahzeb sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 329,370 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahzeb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shahzebs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahzeb was born before 1997 — so the typical Shahzeb is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 68.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 50
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 68.0% of all recorded uses (34).
Is Shahzeb 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1998 (9)
- Years since peak
- 27
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shahzeb
Shahzeb is not the most common spelling — Shaheed is, with 44.7% against Shahzeb's 2.0%.
Shahzeb around the world
Where Shahzeb 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 & Wales1996–2014#4,632in 2014
- Canada2006–2006#2,447in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Shahzeb by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shahzeb
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shahzeb
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.