Shazia

given name · Urdu · Latin script

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

Shazia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is the 49th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Urdu and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Arabic شَاذِيَّة (šāḏiyya, “rare, precious, unique”).

rarermore common
  • PKPakistan1 in 2.2K◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 25K
  • INIndia1 in 113K

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

≈3.4K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
233 ●

41K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 42K ◐

Denmark

Meaning & origin●

From Arabic شَاذِيَّة (šāḏiyya, “rare, precious, unique”).

Sources 2

Where in the world●

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

Where Shazia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PK Pakistan#4984,1391.5K rec.—listedShazia78
IN India—28,73412K rec.—2Shazia90
GB United Kingdom—8,3505.2K rec.—3Shazia109
US United States—2,65717K rec.1 in 125K2.7KShazia233
CA Canada—972869 rec.—5Shazia81
AU Australia—821735 rec.——Shazia63
NO Norway—77294 rec.—740Shazia18
FR France—637397 rec.——Shazia80
SA Saudi Arabia—53378 rec.——Shazia35
ES Spain—346859 rec.1 in 145K346Shazia18
ZA South Africa—312333 rec.——Shazia30
AE United Arab Emirates—275209 rec.——Shazia57

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

Languages●

  • Urdu88K58%
  • English27K18%
  • Hindi13K9%
  • Bangla6.3K4%
  • Arabic2.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Urdu88,20658%
English27,40218%
Hindi12,9999%
Bangla6,3504%
Arabic2,4962%

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◐

Shazia is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hebrew given name121 records spelled Shazia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Israel, India, United Kingdom

    Also written שאזיה, Shaziya

  • Russian given name110 records spelled Shazia11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Pakistan, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Шазия, Shaziia, Шазиа, Шазіа

  • Persian given name77 records spelled Shazia3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, India

    Also written Shäziä

39 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●

01020301980199020002010202026 · 1996

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Shazia in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1972–2025
Yearrecords
19727
197511
19768
197711
197811
19798
198018
198116
198213
198313
198413
198512
198622
198712
198813
198920
199017
199112
199214
199320
19948
19958
199626
199710
199810
19996
20006
20019
20025
20038
200414
200516
200614
200712
20086
20098
20108
20116
20127
20145
20158
20187
20197
20205
202110
202218
202311
202412
202514

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1972–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1960198020002020Shazia Ilmi, b. 1970Shazia Mirza, b. 1972Shazia Signori, b. 2004

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 38 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Shazia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.7K#6,110
IN IndiaIndia Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive)—1.6K#1,923
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—740#1,969
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—346#5,926
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—301#3,041
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—173#5,799
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—141#1,256
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020119—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019118—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018103—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201794—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201689—

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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 · 173 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shazia?
We estimate roughly 3.4 thousand people bear Shazia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Shazia have the most bearers?
Shazia is most frequently recorded in Pakistan, where it is most often spelled shazia.
How common is Shazia compared with other names?
In Pakistan, Shazia is the 49th most common given name of 75,254 given names recorded there.
Is Shazia a male or female name?
Shazia 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.
What does the name Shazia mean?
Recorded meaning: From Arabic شَاذِيَّة (šāḏiyya, “rare, precious, unique”).
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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, “Shazia” — the 49th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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