75%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Arabic, Albanian Scripts شعبان(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. /ʃaʕ.ˈbaːn/(Arabic) [key·simplify] Meaning & History From the name of the eighth month of the Islamic calendar. It is derived from Arabic شعب (shaʿaba) meaning "scatter" [1]. Related NamesFamily Tree·Details RootshaʿbānOther Languages & CulturesŠaban(Bosnian) Šaban(Macedonian) Shabani(Swahili) Şaban(Turkish) Categories months, religion, time periods, travel Sources & References Wehr, Hans. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic. Spoken Language Services, 1979, page 552.