# Shah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shah/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 440 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 430 / 10 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,310, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 11,550 |
| 2015 | 5 | 18,706 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 11 | 7,423 |
| 2012 | 14 | 6,255 |
| 2013 | 16 | 5,613 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,468 |
| 2015 | 11 | 7,439 |
| 2016 | 10 | 8,068 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,727 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7,540 |
| 2019 | 7 | 10,630 |
| 2020 | 13 | 6,567 |
| 2021 | 14 | 6,289 |
| 2022 | 11 | 7,680 |
| 2023 | 14 | 6,461 |
| 2024 | 15 | 6,142 |
| 2025 | 12 | 7,121 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 9 | 2,589 |
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 9 | 2,717 |
| 2013 | 5 | 4,050 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3,609 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,518 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 3 | 5,493 |
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 6 | 3,695 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 42 | 743 |
| 2012 | 27 | 1,021 |
| 2013 | 33 | 882 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 35 | 873 |
| 2016 | 27 | 1,050 |
| 2017 | 31 | 968 |
| 2018 | 29 | 985 |
| 2019 | 27 | 1,030 |
| 2020 | 19 | 1,314 |
| 2021 | 28 | 1,023 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,104 |
| 2023 | 33 | 929 |
| 2024 | 41 | 800 |
| 2025 | 31 | 976 |

## People named Shah

- Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi, former Minister of foreign affairs of Pakistan

## 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.