Shahab — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shahab

The Social Security Administration has registered 182 babies named Shahab between 1977 and 2023, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shahab currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 2012, when 10 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shahab performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 46 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shahab shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shahab in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shahab in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 182 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.