Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Shahrzad 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 1976. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shahrzad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 124
- 0 boys · 124 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 12 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 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 926 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.
Shahrzad’s family of names
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Shahrzad
Characters named Shahrzad: Scheherazade (main female character and a narrator in The Thousand and One Nights).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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