Shaheed
Shaheed was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,773 among boys’ names; 1,138 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Shaheed and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaheed by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaheed?
#11,773 among boys’ names, 2025
Shaheed fell from #6,611 in 2015 to #11,773 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 3.5 per million.
60 babies in 1994, the peak
Shaheed peaked in 1994, when 60 boys were given it, #1,551 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,773 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,723 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,600 | 4.7 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,770 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,564 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 15 | #6,053 | 8.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #8,056 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,735 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,659 | 6.9 |
| 2015 | 13 | #6,611 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 7 | #10,540 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,649 | 4.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,962 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,417 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,649 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #6,035 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 25 | #4,119 | 12.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,098 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,265 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,429 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,962 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 28 | #3,348 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 37 | #2,625 | 19.1 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,975 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,614 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,777 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 31 | #2,695 | 16.2 |
| 1997 | 40 | #2,194 | 21.2 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,066 | 22.2 |
| 1995 | 43 | #1,980 | 22.6 |
| 1994 | 60 | #1,551 | 31.1 |
| 1993 | 47 | #1,817 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 42 | #1,947 | 21.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,853 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,609 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,191 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,051 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,173 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,407 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,357 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,088 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 23 | #2,262 | 12.8 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,808 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,761 | 9.5 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,760 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 32 | #1,779 | 18.6 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,862 | 17.1 |
| 1977 | 40 | #1,470 | 24.3 |
| 1976 | 30 | #1,742 | 19.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,708 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaheed a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaheed has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaheed: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaheed, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,138 Americans ever recorded as Shaheed. The median Shaheed alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 1,003 people named Shaheed (7 women and girls, 996 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,070 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 156 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 377 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 122 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shaheed born?
The states with the most babies named Shaheed are Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, with 94% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 143 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| New Jersey | 128 | not ranked | 3.9× |
| New York | 91 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| California | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shaheed is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaheed is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 3.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaheed with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,035 babies since 1880, Shaheed is the most given (56% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaheed
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaheed and names like it
- Compare Shaheed and ShahidBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaheed peaked in 1994.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaheed since 1910.
- The top names of 1994The year the most babies were named Shaheed.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaheed alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.