Shahad
Shahad is a town in the Thane district in Maharashtra state in India. It is located 60 km from Mumbai. Shahad's Pin code is 421103 and postal head office is Shahad.
- Arabic
Meaning & Origin of Shahad
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Shahad is a town in the Thane district in Maharashtra state in India. It is located 60 km from Mumbai. Shahad's Pin code is 421103 and postal head office is Shahad.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Arabic
The Story of Shahad
The earliest SSA record of Shahad as a baby girl name dates back to 1998, when 9 babies received it. 2016 was its biggest year on record, with 22 newborns named Shahad — #5,796 in the national rankings. About 56% of every Shahad on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Shahad last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 8 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 264 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Shahad
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Names that sound like Shahad
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About the name Shahad
Shahad is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1998 and has accumulated 264 births in the dataset. Shahad's peak popularity came in 2016 when it ranked #5,796. Use the chart and map above to compare Shahad's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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