Around the globe, شاك (Shak 
, Schack 
, شاك 
) is a common dominantly masculine, but infrequently female given name. The first name شاك is habitual in Western Asia, particularly Oman, where it is quite a rare dominantly male, but uncommonly girly name, Kuwait, and Qatar, where it is quite a rare male name. In absolute terms, it most frequently occurs in India, Bangladesh, and Saudi Arabia. More prevalently, شاك is the last name as well as the forename.