Given name & surname
Shahin
Shahin is a surname. It is used in English and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Shahin 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 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shahin through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 329
- 329 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1989
- 19 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,140 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,140 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 19 in 1989. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,143 as a first name in 2020; 1,676 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.
Shahin’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 Shahin
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
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