Shah
41
Babies in 2024
+86%
10-year change
2005
Peak · 55
+24%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Shah
Shah peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (55 babies in 2005) and has remained in active use — 41 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Shah reached its peak in 2005, when 55 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #502 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 41 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,053 boys have been officially registered with the name Shah in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 317 boys were registered with the name, starting from 22 in 2014 and ending at 41 in 2024.