Shady
loc · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shady is a name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Romanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Abounding in shades.
- SESweden1 in 112K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 184K
- TNTunisia1 in 216K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- Sources
- 173 ●
- 1 in 112K ◐
across 13 countries
15K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
19 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shädy in EG Egypt and Śhâďý in SY Syria.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
Abounding in shades.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 768 | 2.1K rec. | 1 in 433K | 929 | — | 173 |
| NL Netherlands | 94 | 58 rec. | 1 in 184K | 94 | — | 22 |
| SE Sweden | 91△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 112K | 91 | — | 10 |
| EG Egypt | 89 | 8.9K rec. | — | listed | Shädy | 124 |
| ES Spain | 40 | 32 rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 40 | — | 13 |
| PL Poland | 32 | — | 1 in 1.2M | 32 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 29 | — | 1 in 7.3M | 29 | — | — |
| TN Tunisia | 22 | 28 rec. | — | — | Shady | 11 |
| DK Denmark | 15△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 10 | — | 1 in 510K | 10 | — | — |
| SY Syria | 8 | 2K rec. | — | — | Śhâďý | 18 |
| FI Finland | 6△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 929K | 25 | — | 4 |
Roughly 768 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 433K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English53K41%
- Romanian881%
- Swedish461%
- Arabic211%
- Sinhala201%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 52,504 | 41% |
| Romanian | 88 | 1% |
| Swedish | 46 | 1% |
| Arabic | 21 | 1% |
| Sinhala | 20 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1915 | 6 |
| 1916 | 8 |
| 1920 | 5 |
| 1941 | 6 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1978 | 6 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 11 |
| 1981 | 6 |
| 1982 | 8 |
| 1983 | 7 |
| 1984 | 9 |
| 1985 | 11 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 15 |
| 1990 | 9 |
| 1991 | 8 |
| 1992 | 13 |
| 1993 | 9 |
| 1994 | 18 |
| 1995 | 12 |
| 1996 | 10 |
| 1997 | 12 |
| 1998 | 10 |
| 1999 | 12 |
| 2000 | 9 |
| 2001 | 11 |
| 2002 | 9 |
| 2003 | 7 |
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 12 |
| 2006 | 7 |
| 2007 | 6 |
| 2008 | 6 |
| 2009 | 8 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2016 | 5 |
| 2019 | 7 |
| 2023 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 41 years between 1915–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Ruth Shadyb. 1946PEPeruvian anthropologist
- Khaled Abo Shadyb. 1973EGEgyptian writer
- Shādī Zaydānb. 1974SYnot in their usual nameSyrian actor
- Shadi Al-Zinatib. 1978JOnot in their usual nameJordanian journalist and politician
- Chadi Hammamib. 1986TNnot in their usual nameTunisian association football player
- Shaadi Alfonsb. 1986EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor
- Shady Habashb. 1995EGEgyptian filmmaker
- Shadi Srourb. 1995EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian actor and musician
- Shady El Nahasb. 1998CAEgyptian judoka
- Chadi AlhelouCAnot in their usual nameperforming artist in Canada
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 46 sources across 28 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 209 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shady?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Shady (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shady have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 768 people bear Shady in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Shady most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shady is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 112 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- What does the name Shady mean?
- Recorded meaning: Abounding in shades.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shady”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.