Given name
Shazia
“rare, precious, unique”
Shazia is a feminine given name from Arabic, meaning “rare, precious, unique.”
Original Arabicشَاذِيَّة
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic شَاذِيَّة (“rare, precious, unique”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1972. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shazia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 555
- 0 boys · 555 girls
- Most popular year
- 1996
- 26 babies
- 2025
- 14
- #7,844 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 14 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 7,844 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 26 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,664 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.
Shazia’s family of names
In English usage, Shazia has a diminutive in SHAZ. In English usage, Shazia has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form شَاذِيَّة.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shazia
- Shazia IlmiIndian politician and social activistborn 1970
- Shazia MirzaBritish comedianborn 1972
- Shazia ManzoorPakistani singer
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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