The Shabazz surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 3,963 people carried this name — #8,353 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 74,600 people counted. That is up 30% from 3,056 in 2000.

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What the name means

The meaning of the Shabazz surname

From Arabic شَعْب (šaʕb, “a people”) and Arabic عَزّ (ʕazz, “to be mighty or glorious”). Also possibly from Persian شهباز (šahbâz, “royal falcon”), from شاه (shāh, “king”), + باز (bāz, “hawk, falcon”).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Shabazz» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

Who carried it

People named Shabazz,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Malcolm X
    Malcolm X 1925–1965 · politician
  • Bilal Winston Shabazz d. 2021
  • Betty Shabazz 1934–1997 · lawyer
  • Menelik Shabazz 1954–2021 · documentary filmmaker

Wikidata (CC0) · portraits via Wikimedia Commons, shown cropped, in the public domain or CC0 · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Shabazz,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States12 records

12 records of the Shabazz name in the United States U.S. veterans' cemetery records, burials to 2001
  1. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Altariq Shabazz

    U.S. Army veteran of World War II. Born 1926, died 1998; buried at Roselawn Cemetery, Hayward, California.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  2. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Bilal A. Shabazz

    U.S. Coast Guard veteran. Born 1954, died 1999; buried at Gethsemane Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)
  3. A U.S. Army record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864
    Example: U.S. burial record, 1864
    Burial record Bilaal Umar Shabazz

    U.S. Navy veteran. Born 1972, died 1999; buried at Rosedale & Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, New Jersey.

    U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0)

Showing 3 of 12 records for Shabazz in the United States.

Counts: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Gravesite Locator (CC0). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Record of death and interment, Camp Nelson, Kentucky, 1864, U.S. National Archives (public domain).

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