Given name & surname · also Arabic
Shabazz
“a people”
Shabazz is a surname from Arabic (ultimately Persian).
Meaning & origin
What it means
Shabazz goes back to Arabic شَعْب, meaning “a people.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Shabazz comes from Arabic, and ultimately from Persian.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Arabic شَعْب (“a people”), from Arabic عَزّ (“to be mighty or glorious”), from Persian شهباز (šahbâz, “royal falcon”); its root is Arabic ش ع ب.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1971. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shabazz through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 286
- 286 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1992
- 30 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 boys is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 30 in 1992. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 267 as a first name in 2020; 4,046 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shabazz’s family of names
Shabazz may belong to the same name family as SHABBAZZ. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Shabazz
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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