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Shazia

#7,842 in 2025Girls' name

Rare, precious, unique

Shazia has been given to 555 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #7,842 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 26 recorded.

Babies named Shazia, 2025

1 in 237,000

Shazia over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shazia: meaning, origin, and history

Rare, precious, unique

Arabic

What Shazia means

Shazia means “rare, precious, unique”, associated with šāḏiyya.

Origin, language, and formation

Shazia is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Shazia comes through Arabic شَاذِيَّة.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 555 girls were recorded with the name Shazia between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1996; its best national rank was #3,866 in 1986.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #17,155 in 2020 to #7,842 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,837 in 2015 to #7,842 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shazia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 237,000
14 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 115,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,842
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
164,137 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shazia 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 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shazia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shazias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shazia was born before 1994 — so the typical Shazia is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
27.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
555
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Choose a decade

1980s — 27.4% of all recorded uses (152).

Is Shazia 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
+1,027
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+9,313
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,995
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
53.8%
Peak was 1996 (26)
Years since peak
29
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,866
1986

Spellings of Shazia

Shazia is not the most common spelling — Shelia is, with 10.5% against Shazia's 0.12%.

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 Shazia is used

Across 1910–2025, Shazia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,133,336 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Shazia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shazia around the world

Where Shazia 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
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–2001
    #627
    in 2001
  • France
    1989–2024
    #4,200
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shazia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,842
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 9,313
Best rank ever
#3,866
1986
Peak year
1996
26 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
555
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Shazia

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

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Sibling names for Shazia

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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