Šukys

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

/ʂukʲis/(machine-generated) Lithuanian · model-generated

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Šukys is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Plg. Šūkas, Šūkis (žr.). Šių pvd. kilmė nėra visai aiški. Plg. liet. šukfs „kas su šukėtais dantimis, šukdantis“ (LKŽK). Kartais įmanomi ir kt. ryšiai — su liet.

  • LTLithuania≈1 in 4.3Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 101K
  • SESweden1 in 928K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)

≈640 people, est.

Record sources
52 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Lithuania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sukys in NO Norway, SE Sweden.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

Plg. Šūkas, Šūkis (žr.). Šių pvd. kilmė nėra visai aiški. Plg. liet. šukfs „kas su šukėtais dantimis, šukdantis“ (LKŽK). Kartais įmanomi ir kt. ryšiai — su liet. šūkė „sudaužyto indo, stiklo, sprogusio sviedinio ir kt. skeveldra; indo, dalgio išmušta vieta; prastas, apdužęs indas, peilis, dalgis“ (DLKŽ), sušūkti „šūktelėti“ (ten pat), šūkos „įrankis plaukams ir kt. šukuoti“, šukuoti „šukomis ar šepečiu plaukus tvarkyti; šepečiu linus valyti; linų galvas braukti; mušti, perti; greitomis, skubant ką daryti (valgyti, eiti ir kt.)“ (ten pat) ir pan.

Cited for this meaning 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Šukys counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Šukys is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LT Lithuania#70≈640 est.≈1 in 4.3K—Šukys52
NO Norway—541 in 101K54Sukys5
BR Brazil—471 in 4.5M47——
SE Sweden—111 in 928K11Sukys3
ES Spain—91 in 5.6M9——
EE Estonia—≈5 est.≈1 in 234KlistedŠukys4
DK Denmark—31 in 2M3——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Šukys is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, Chinese, German

    Also written Sukys

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sukys

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Sukys

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sukys

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sukys

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sukys

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sukys

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalGerbiamasis/Gerbiamoji Šukys,Dear Šukys, (English)
InformalGerbiamasis/Gerbiamoji Šukys,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Reference works 4

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Šukys?
In Lithuanian /ʂukʲis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What does the name Šukys mean?
Recorded meaning: Plg. Šūkas, Šūkis (žr.). Šių pvd. kilmė nėra visai aiški. Plg. liet. šukfs „kas su šukėtais dantimis, šukdantis“ (LKŽK). Kartais įmanomi ir kt. ryšiai — su liet.
In which country does Šukys have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 635 people named Šukys in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šukys.
How common is the name Šukys?
In Norway, the national register counted 54 people named Šukys, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
How common is Šukys compared with other names?
In Lithuania, Šukys is the 70th most common surname of 43,479 surnames recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Šukys” — the 70th most common surname in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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