Shafik

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shafik is a given name, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 483◐
  • INIndia1 in 22K
  • MYMalaysia1 in 30K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈323 ●

across 5 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
126 ●

74K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 99K ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

ShafikLatin · Hindi●113K records
শফিকBengali · Bangla●122 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Shafique in PK Pakistan, US United States, GB United Kingdom and 12 more.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Shafik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—143,00454K rec.—593Shafik72
PK Pakistan—104,1511.8K rec.—1Shafique91
MY Malaysia—2,1081.4K rec.——Shafik27
GB United Kingdom—1,8621.2K rec.——Shafique79
BD Bangladesh—9751.2K rec.—listedShafique40
SA Saudi Arabia—716272 rec.——Shafique33
SY Syria—676733 rec.——Shafik10
EG Egypt—5311.5K rec.—listedShafik78
AU Australia—312526 rec.——Shafique37
AE United Arab Emirates—282331 rec.——Shafique37
CA Canada—214307 rec.——Shafique29
UG Uganda#10220866 rec.—1Shafik17

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi113K63%
  • 33K18%
  • Bangla10K6%
  • English4.1K2%
  • Urdu3.9K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi113,04463%
32,65718%
Bangla10,2396%
English4,1332%
Urdu3,8812%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Shafik is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name42K records spelled Shafik2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written S̱ẖafīḳ

  • Hebrew given name368 records spelled Shafik5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, United States

    Also written שפיק, Shafiq, Shafîk, Shapik

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05001K1.5K1900192019401960198020001.1K · 1982

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Shafik in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2015
Yearrecords
18991
19141
19151
19172
19183
19192
19203
19212
19223
19235
192412
19255
19264
192712
19288
192933
19305
193113
193246
193318
193460
193522
193633
193747
193848
1939103
194080
194176
1942147
194384
1944239
1945127
1946173
1947202
1948205
1949346
1950187
1951190
1952397
1953226
1954513
1955272
1956348
1957430
1958428
1959678
1960443
1961402
1962762
1963517
1964760
1965525
1966660
1967798
1968634
1969802
1970719
1971656
1972848
1973799
1974695
1975802
1976944
1977747
1978795
1979778
1980825
1981822
19821,150
1983967
19841,104
1985925
1986912
1987838
1988843
1989748
1990738
1991777
1992761
1993681
1994540
1995412
1996164
1997149
199893
19993
200823
20092
201019
20116
20124
201313
201470
201531

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 94 years between 1899–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

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 33 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Shafik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19821.1K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19841.1K—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1983967—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1976944—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1985925—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1986912—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1972848—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1988843—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1987838—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1980825—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1981822—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)1975802—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 · 233 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shafik?
We estimate roughly 323 people bear Shafik (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
In which country does Shafik have the most bearers?
Shafik is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shafik.
How common is Shafik compared with other names?
In Uganda, Shafik is the 102nd most common given name of 2,022 given names recorded there.
Is Shafik a male or female name?
Shafik is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Shafik” — the 102nd most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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