# Shabazz (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/shabazz/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Persian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,963 |
| US rank (2010) | 8,353 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 77,907 people |
| Change since 2000 | +30% (3,056 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

From Arabic شَعْب (šaʕb, “a people”) and Arabic عَزّ (ʕazz, “to be mighty or glorious”). Also possibly from Persian شهباز (šahbâz, “royal falcon”), from شاه (shāh, “king”), + باز (bāz, “hawk, falcon”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Shabazz in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 2.0% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 88% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 4.5% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.3% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.5% |
| Two or more races | 4.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Shabazz in the United States.

## People named Shabazz

- Betty Shabazz, American educator and wife of Malcolm X (1934–1997)
- Malcolm X, American Black rights activist (1925–1965)

## Similar surnames

Savage, Sipes, Speck, Spies, Speaks, Spiess, Sopko, Sabbagh, Sipos, Shives, Sobieski, Svec.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.