Shahin
Means "royal falcon," an Arabic name. In Poland it's carried by around 100 men and no women at all, rare enough that most Poles have never met one.
Shahin Pronunciation
What Shahin means
Where Shahin comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shahin means royal falcon. The name reaches Polish readers through Arabic, where people carry it from Egypt to the Gulf, yet its origin sits further east. It comes from the Persian شاهین, a word for the peregrine, the falconer's most prized bird. Few falcons earned that rank.
Ornithology kept the word. The Shaheen falcon, Falco peregrinus peregrinator, still nests on cliffs across the Indian subcontinent and drops on its prey in a steep, fast dive. Anyone named Shahin shares the word with that bird.
On a Polish class register, Shahin sits among the Anteks and Zuzias, a short name a teacher reads without stumbling. It still points at the royal falcon.
How many people are named Shahin
1 in 201379 men in Poland is named Shahin. 106 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3327 among male names.
Shahin as a middle name
Shahin is a first name for 106 men in Poland and a middle name for another 11, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 3016th, between Sercan (11) and Shehata (11).
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#3014 Semih11
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#3015 Sercan11
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#3016 Shahin11
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#3017 Shehata11
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#3018 Sigurd11