Scheherazade (Persian Shahrazād, from shahr = city + āzād = noble, free) is the frame narrator of Alf laylah wa-laylah (One Thousand and One Nights / The Arabian Nights). The vizier's daughter who volunteers to marry the misogynist King Shahryar — who has been killing each new bride at dawn since being betrayed by his first wife — and who saves her own life and the lives of all future Persian women by telling the king cliffhanging tales for 1,001 nights.
Subject of Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite Scheherazade (1888).
Scheherazade does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Scheherazade reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.