# Scheherazade (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/scheherazade/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Persian |
| Meaning | “lineage”, “noble”, “city”, “child of” |
| Pronunciation | /ʃəˈhɛɹəzɑd/, 4 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Scheherezade, Shahrazad, Shahrzad, Sheherazade |
| US babies named this | 48 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 48 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

Borrowed from German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да (Šexerazáda), from Classical Persian شَهْرَازَاد (šahrāzād), alternative form of شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād); either a reborrowing from Arabic شَهْرْزَاد (šahrzād) from Middle Persian *čihrāzād⁠, equivalent to New Persian چهر (čihr /čehr, “lineage”) + آزاد (āzād /âzâd, “noble”), or a compound of شهر (šahr, “city”) + زاد (zād /zâd, “child of”), in which case there was likely no reborrowing through Arabic involved. Given name popularized by the fictional character below.

## What it means

Scheherazade is grouped under noble.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 5 | 5,904 |
| 1963 | 5 | 7,441 |
| 1968 | 8 | 5,543 |
| 1970 | 6 | 7,800 |
| 1971 | 6 | 8,119 |
| 1976 | 7 | 7,948 |
| 1977 | 6 | 9,376 |
| 1978 | 5 | 11,090 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: شَهْرَزَاد
- Armenian: Շահրազադ
- Bulgarian: Шехереза́да, Шахраза́да
- Catalan: Xahrazad
- Chinese: 謝赫拉莎德 /谢赫拉莎德, 舍赫拉查德
- Dutch: Sjeherazade, Scheherazade, Sheherazade, Sherazade
- Esperanto: Ŝehrazad
- Finnish: Šeherazade
- French: Shéhérazade, Schéhérazade
- Georgian: შეჰერეზადა
- German: Scheherazade, Scheherezade
- Greek: Σεχραζάντ
- Hebrew: שחרזאדה, שהראזאד
- Hindi: शहरज़ाद
- Hungarian: Seherezádé
- Indonesian: Scheherezade, Sheherazade, Shahrazad
- Italian: Sharazād, Shahrazād, Sherazad
- Japanese: シェヘラザード
- Korean: 셰에라자드, 세헤라자데
- Norwegian: Sjeherasad

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.