Shukla
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃəkɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shukla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Sanskrit शुक्ल (śukla).
- INIndia1 in 14K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 56K
- USUnited States1 in 105K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- #651 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
97,948 people
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Arab Emirates, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Borrowed from Sanskrit शुक्ल (śukla).
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shukla 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #111 | 97,948 | 1 in 14K | 98K | Shukla | 303 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Shukla | 18 |
| US United States | — | 3,176 | 1 in 105K | 5K | Shukla | 303 |
| NP Nepal | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Shukla | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 1.1K | Shukla | 120 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #534 | ≈920 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Shukla | 64 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Shukla | 56 |
97,948 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ravishankar Shuklab. 1877INIndian politician (1877-1956)
- Shrilal Shuklab. 1925INIndian writer (1925–2011)
- Vidya Charan Shuklab. 1929INIndian politician (1929–2013)
- Shiv Pratap Shuklab. 1952INIndian politician
- Saurabh Shuklab. 1963INIndian film and television actor, director, and screenwriter
- Siddharth Shuklab. 1980INactor, model and host (1980–2021)
- Shilpa Shuklab. 1982INIndian theatre, television and Bollywood film actress
- Champa Devi ShuklaINIndian activist
- Vinay ShuklaINIndian film director and writer
- Umesh ShuklaINIndian film director
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 98K | #189 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12K | #112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5K | #6,518 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.2K | #10,159 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.8K | #15,252 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.1K | #6,292 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Shukla mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Sanskrit शुक्ल (śukla). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shukla?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃəkɫə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Shukla have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 98 thousand people named Shukla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shukla.
- How common is the name Shukla?
- In India, the national register counted 97,948 people named Shukla, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
- How common is Shukla compared with other names?
- In India, Shukla is the 111th most common surname of 1,492,515 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shukla?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shuklaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Shukla” — the 111th most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.