75%RatingSave Gender Masculine Usage Arabic, Albanian Scripts شعبان(Arabic) Pronounced Pron. sha‘-BAN(Arabic) [key·IPA] Meaning & History From the name of the eighth month of the Islamic calendar. It is derived from Arabic شعب (sha'aba) meaning "scatter". Related NamesFamily Tree·Details Other Languages & CulturesŠaban(Bosnian) Šaban(Macedonian) Shabani(Swahili) Şaban(Turkish) Categories months, travel