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Shoaib

#11,784 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Shuayb

Shoaib has been given to 216 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #11,784 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2003, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Shoaib, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shoaib: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Shuayb

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shoaib means

Shoaib is a alternate transcription of Shuayb.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shoaib is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃu.ˈʕajb/ for Shoaib.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shoaib → Shuayb. The family’s meaning is “branch, field of study”, recorded in the naming reference for Shuayb.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shuayb.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 216 boys were recorded with the name Shoaib between 1983 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2003; its best national rank was #5,445 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #11,811 in 2020 to #11,784 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,739 in 2015 to #11,784 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 Shoaib?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,784
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shoaib 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shoaib. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shoaibs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shoaib was born before 2013 — so the typical Shoaib is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
216
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Choose a decade

2010s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (68).

Is Shoaib 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
−2,053
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+27
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,955
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2003 (14)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,445
1991

Spellings of Shoaib

Shoaib is not the most common spelling — Shai is, with 56.0% against Shoaib's 4.9%.

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 Shoaib is used

Across 1910–2025, Shoaib was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 832,740 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shoaib has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shoaib around the world

Where Shoaib 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
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1999–2000
    #429
    in 2000
  • France
    2002–2023
    #4,476
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2006–2006
    #2,447
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    2008–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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.

Shoaib by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,784
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 27
Best rank ever
#5,445
1991
Peak year
2003
14 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
216
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Shoaib

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

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Sibling names for Shoaib

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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