Given name · also German
Scheherazade
“lineage”·“noble”
Scheherazade is a feminine given name from German, ultimately from Middle Persian. It is used in English and German.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Scheherazade is built from elements meaning “lineage” and “noble”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Scheherazade comes from German, and ultimately from Middle Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From German Scheherazade, from Russian Шехераза́да, from Classical Persian شَهْرَازَاد, from Arabic شَهْرْزَاد, from Middle Persian *čihrāzād, built from Persian چهر (čihr /čehr, “lineage”) + آزاد (āzād /âzâd, “noble”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1948. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Scheherazade through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 48
- 0 boys · 48 girls
- Most popular year
- 1968
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1978. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1968. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 146 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Scheherazade’s family of names
In English usage, Scheherazade has a conventional equivalent in the Hungarian form Seherezádé. In English usage, Scheherazade has a conventional equivalent in the French form Shéhérazade. In English usage, Scheherazade has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Szeherezada.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Scheherazade has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Persian roots to each of them.
6 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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