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Shehbaaz

Gender
Boy
Say it
SHEH-baz
Origin
Persian
UK rank, 2025
#1,771 for boys

Shehbaaz is a boys' name of Persian origin, meaning “royal falcon”. In 2025 it ranked 1,771st for boys in the UK (15 babies).

What does Shehbaaz mean?

Persian: spelling of Shahbaz, shah 'king' + baz 'falcon'

“royal falcon”

From Persian shah, 'king', and baz, 'falcon'; Lal Shahbaz Qalandar is a revered 13th-century Sufi saint of Sindh.

Is Shehbaaz a girl's or a boy's name?

Shehbaaz is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Shehbaaz in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#1,771among boys
Babies in 2025
15about 1 in 20,000 boys
Five-year trend
Newly popularnew in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 15 boys in the UK were named Shehbaaz, making it the 1,771st most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2024, with 18 boys.

Half of all the boys named Shehbaaz in the UK since 1996 were born between 2022 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 20 boys in the UK were given Shehbaaz or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,242, up from #1,771 for this spelling alone.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,703rd in England and Wales.

2020Busiest: 18 in 20242025
Shehbaaz in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202515#1,771
202418#1,528
202310#2,303
202211#2,143
20219#2,434
20203#4,803

Names like Shehbaaz

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Shehbaaz

Names related to Shehbaaz

More Persian names

Every Persian name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shehbaaz: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shehbaaz, updated 20 October 2026.