Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Shaheen isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
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
Shaheen through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 735
- 592 boys · 143 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 27 babies
- 2025
- 22
- #4,680 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +104%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 22 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 4,680 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 23 in 1990. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,017 as a first name in 2020; 3,844 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.
Shaheen’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shaheen
- Shahin DiniyevAzerbaijani football playerborn 1966
- Shaheen Shah AfridiPakistani cricketerborn 2000
- Shaheen JafargholiBritish actorborn 1997
- Shahin VahmanzadeganSasanian general600–626
- Shaheen RazaPakistani politician1950–2020
- Shaheen KhanIndian actress
- Shahin BadarBritish musicianborn 1974
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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