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In all the world, Shawkat (شوكت , Shawkat , شوکت ) is a common primarily masculine, but very infrequently female forename. The first name Shawkat is habitual in Western Asia, particularly Iraq, where it is quite a rare principally masculine, but scarcely girly name, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. Measured by absolute frequency, it is commonest in Bangladesh, Egypt, and Iraq. Much less frequently, Shawkat is the last name as well as the forename.