Shuaib
A boys’ name of Arabic origin, meaning the prophet Shuaib; variant of Shuayb or Jethro.
Shuaib by the numbers
In 2025, 8 babies in England and Wales were named Shuaib. In the US, 10 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 16 babies in 2006, making it a 2000s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Shuaib. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Shoaibreturn; repentance; a Quranic name5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shuaybbranch; the prophet Shuayb in islam8 in the US (2017)
- Suhaibreddish brown; pure14 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shaikchief, elder; a form of shaikh5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Shain9 in the US (2017)
- Sohaib6 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Shuaib, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Graysonson of the steward8,767 in the US (2017)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
- Georgefarmer, earth worker3,082 in England and Wales (2025)
- Baileybailiff or steward of a castle2,561 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Shuaib
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