Shą

surname · Latin script

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

Shą is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • INIndia1 in 958K(measured from records)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 1.5M
  • AEUnited Arab Emirates≈1 in 2.6M

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (measured from records)

1,384 people

Sources
59 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 206K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sha in EG Egypt, IN India, US United States and 2 more, Shã in DZ Algeria and Shä in LY Libya.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shą counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Shą is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—1,3841 in 958K1.4KSha59
US United States—1,0581 in 314K1.5KSha49
EG Egypt—≈69 est.≈1 in 1.5M—Sha32
DZ Algeria—≈66 est.≈1 in 650K—Shã6
PK Pakistan—≈56 est.≈1 in 4.2M—Sha15
FI Finland—271 in 206K44—2
NO Norway—201 in 273K22—3
LY Libya—≈12 est.≈1 in 560K—Shä3
AE United Arab Emirates#202≈4 est.≈1 in 2.6M—Sha58

1,384 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shą is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname48 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Sha, Sha', Shà, Sha’, Shá

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Shą under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Shą have the most bearers?
In India, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Shą, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sha.
Where is Shą most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shą is densest in Finland — about 1 in 206 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shą?
In India, the national register counted 1,384 people named Shą, about 1 in 958 thousand residents.
How common is Shą compared with other names?
In the United Arab Emirates, Shą is the 202nd most common surname of 46,019 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Shą” — the 202nd most common surname in United Arab Emirates. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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