Entry № 9448 · Urdu origin

Shabana Shabana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ shah-BAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Urdu
Meaning
"Nocturnal / lovely (Shabana Azmi, 5 National Film Awards record)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Persian)

A name that means "nocturnal / lovely (shabana azmi, 5 national film awards record)".

Shabana is also a popular Pashto folk-song tradition in northern Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Nocturnal / lovely (Shabana Azmi, 5 National Film Awards record) — a Urdu name.

The name in its native script.

شبانہ
Transliteration
Shabānah
Pronunciation
/ ʃəˈbɑː.nə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Shabana stands.

Shabana 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.

Shabanas before her.

Real people
Shabana Azmi
Indian Parallel Cinema actress.
born 1950
In fiction
Shabana
Various Indian films.

Names connected to Shabana.

The number behind Shabana.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shabana reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.