In all the world, Šakir (Шакир 
, Šakir 
) is quite a common masculine given name. The first name Šakir is habitual in Kyrgyzstan, where it is quite a common male name, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan, where it is quite a rare boy's name. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Much less frequently, Šakir is the last name as well as the forename.