Shafique
surname · Urdu · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shafique is a surname, most frequently recorded in India. It appears chiefly in Urdu and , written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 126 ●
- 1 in 99K ◐
across 5 countries
recorded for this name
74K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Shafik in IN India, MY Malaysia, SY Syria and 9 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 143,004 | 54K rec. | — | 593 | Shafik | 72 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 104,151 | 1.8K rec. | — | 1 | Shafique | 91 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 2,108 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | Shafik | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,862 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Shafique | 79 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | 975 | 1.2K rec. | — | listed | Shafique | 40 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 716 | 272 rec. | — | — | Shafique | 33 |
| SY Syria | — | 676 | 733 rec. | — | — | Shafik | 10 |
| EG Egypt | — | 531 | 1.5K rec. | — | listed | Shafik | 78 |
| AU Australia | — | 312 | 526 rec. | — | — | Shafique | 37 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | 282 | 331 rec. | — | — | Shafique | 37 |
| CA Canada | — | 214 | 307 rec. | — | — | Shafique | 29 |
| UG Uganda | #102 | 208 | 66 rec. | — | 1 | Shafik | 17 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Urdu105K80%
- 9.5K7%
- English4.3K3%
- Hindi3.3K2%
- Bangla2.9K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Urdu | 104,819 | 80% |
| 9,535 | 7% | |
| English | 4,346 | 3% |
| Hindi | 3,252 | 2% |
| Bangla | 2,948 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Ahmed Shafikb. 1970EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian film director
- Abdullah Shafiqueb. 1999PKPakistani cricketer
- Muhammad Farhan ShafiqueGBresearcher
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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 · 44 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shafique?
- We estimate roughly 323 people bear Shafique (counting its spellings and scripts) across 5 countries in our records.
- In which country does Shafique have the most bearers?
- Shafique is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shafik.
- How common is Shafique compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Shafique is the 102nd most common given name of 2,022 given names recorded there.
Query this name via API
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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, “Shafique” — the 102nd most common given name in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.