Shaikha
given name · Arabic · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shaikha is a given name, most frequently recorded in Kuwait, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Arabic and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- KWKuwait1 in 353◐
- QAQatar1 in 788
- AEUnited Arab Emirates1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- 18K ●
- Sources
- 115 ●
in 5 countries
10K records
Official registry-verified
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KW Kuwait | #29 | 6,472 | 2.5K rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 58 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #61 | 4,785 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 115 |
| QA Qatar | #69 | 2,923 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 70 |
| IN India | — | 2,281 | 719 rec. | — | 11 | Shaikha | 29 |
| UA Ukraine | — | 1,412 | 0 rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 1 |
| BH Bahrain | #15 | 850 | 110 rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 47 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | 566 | 88 rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 55 |
| US United States | — | 536 | 543 rec. | — | 5 | Shaikha | 51 |
| BR Brazil | — | 451 | 449 rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 328 | 63 rec. | — | listed | Shaikha | 15 |
| OM Oman | #106 | 305 | 301 rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 36 |
| TH Thailand | — | 39 | 27 rec. | — | — | Shaikha | 5 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Arabic18K82%
- Hindi2.4K11%
- Portuguese4582%
- English2531%
- Urdu1071%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Arabic | 17,758 | 82% |
| Hindi | 2,396 | 11% |
| Portuguese | 458 | 2% |
| English | 253 | 1% |
| Urdu | 107 | 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 |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1938 | 1 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1947 | 2 |
| 1949 | 1 |
| 1950 | 1 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 2 |
| 1957 | 1 |
| 1959 | 4 |
| 1961 | 2 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 3 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | 4 |
| 1966 | 11 |
| 1967 | 9 |
| 1968 | 5 |
| 1969 | 6 |
| 1970 | 12 |
| 1971 | 8 |
| 1972 | 21 |
| 1973 | 13 |
| 1974 | 19 |
| 1975 | 20 |
| 1976 | 21 |
| 1977 | 24 |
| 1978 | 22 |
| 1979 | 35 |
| 1980 | 5 |
| 1981 | 36 |
| 1982 | 31 |
| 1983 | 53 |
| 1984 | 43 |
| 1985 | 41 |
| 1986 | 51 |
| 1987 | 53 |
| 1988 | 26 |
| 1989 | 33 |
| 1990 | 26 |
| 1991 | 26 |
| 1992 | 45 |
| 1993 | 39 |
| 1994 | 21 |
| 1995 | 20 |
| 1996 | 15 |
| 1997 | 7 |
| 1998 | 5 |
| 1999 | 4 |
| 2008 | 10 |
| 2010 | 13 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 |
| 2014 | 14 |
| 2015 | 11 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 60 years between 1924–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Evidence●
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 90 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Shaikha?
- Our records include 17,984 bearers of Shaikha across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
- In which country does Shaikha have the most bearers?
- Shaikha is most frequently recorded in Kuwait, where it is most often spelled shaikha.
- How common is Shaikha compared with other names?
- In Kuwait, Shaikha is the 29th most common given name of 12,199 given names recorded there.
- Is Shaikha a male or female name?
- Shaikha is a female 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
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, “Shaikha” — the 29th most common given name in Kuwait. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.