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Shihab

Boys' name

Shooting star, meteor

Shihab has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1999. 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 2023, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Shihab, 2023

1 in 331,000

Shihab over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shihab: meaning, origin, and history

Shooting star, meteor

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shihab means

Shihab means “shooting star, meteor”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shihab is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃi.ˈhaːb/ for Shihab.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 boys were recorded with the name Shihab between 1999 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,163 in 2023.

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 Shihab?

Shihab had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 331,000
10 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
229,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shihab 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 2023 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 229,764 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shihab. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shihabs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shihab was born before 2009 — so the typical Shihab is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
94
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (46).

Is Shihab 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (10)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,163
2023

Spellings of Shihab

Shihab is not the most common spelling — Shia is, with 50.7% against Shihab's 2.1%.

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.

Shihab around the world

Where Shihab 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
    1998–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2021
    #6,496
    in 2021

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

Shihab by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,163
2023
Peak year
2023
10 that year
First recorded
1999
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shihab

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

ShivinShivayShiahShivanShimmyShionShivangShirazShizuoShivenShivaanShivaayShineShieldsShivikMohabWahabShivankShiheemShiquanShishirShironShingoShinji

Sibling names for Shihab

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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