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Shuayb

#7,121 in 2025Boys' name

Branch, field of study

Shuayb has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #7,121 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Shuayb, 2025

1 in 276,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shuayb: meaning, origin, and history

Branch, field of study

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shuayb means

Shuayb means “branch, field of study”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 109 boys were recorded with the name Shuayb between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2025; its best national rank was #7,121 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,423 in 2020 to #7,121 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,432 in 2015 to #7,121 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 Shuayb?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,121
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shuayb 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shuayb. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shuaybs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shuayb was born before 2014 — so the typical Shuayb is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
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Choose a decade

2010s — 52.3% of all recorded uses (57).

Is Shuayb 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
+6,813
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,302
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,311
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.50×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (12)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,121
2025

Spellings of Shuayb

Shuayb is not the most common spelling — Shay is, with 66.0% against Shuayb's 1.4%.

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.

Shuayb around the world

Where Shuayb 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
    1996–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • France
    2012–2025
    #3,058
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2004
    #2,269
    in 2004

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

Shuayb by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,121
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,302
Best rank ever
#7,121
2025
Peak year
2025
12 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Shuayb

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

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Sibling names for Shuayb

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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