Şakir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Arabic, form of Shakir
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃakˈɪr/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Şakir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 18K
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 8.5K
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.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈34,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Sakir in BD Bangladesh.
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)
a male given name from Arabic, form of Shakir
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Şakir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #263 | ≈34,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Şakir | 62 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Sakir | 31 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Şakir | 4 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #811 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | 115 | Şakir | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Şakir | 6 |
| CY Cyprus | #536 | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Şakir | 8 |
| DK Denmark | — | 25 | 1 in 235K | 42 | — | — |
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: Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Şakir is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, Şükreden, durumundan memnun olan kimse.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bahaeddin Şakirb. 1874TROttoman politician (1874–1922)
- Şakir Kesebirb. 1889TRTurkish statesperson (1889–1966)
- Halikarnas Balıkçısıb. 1890TRnot in their usual nameTurkish writer (1886–1973)
- Shakir Hassan Al Saidb. 1925IQnot in their usual nameIraqi painter (1925-2004)
- Şakir Eczacıbaşıb. 1929TRTurkish businessperson (1929–2010)
- Shakir Khusbakb. 1930IQnot in their usual nameIraqi geographer and novelist
- Şakir Selimb. 1942UASoviet writer and poet (1942-2008)
- Shākir ʻAbd al-Ḥamīdb. 1952EGnot in their usual nameEgyptian politician (1952–2021)
- Şakir Özkan Torunlarb. 1960TRTurkish diplomat (born 1960)
- Abu Waheebb. 1986IQnot in their usual nameIS Field Commander
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 9 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics | — | 115 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Тахиров, Речник на турските лични имена в България
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 Şakir mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Arabic, form of Shakir Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Şakir?
- In the etymology graph, Shakir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Şakir?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃakˈɪr/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- Is Şakir a male or female name?
- Şakir is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Şakir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 34 thousand people named Şakir in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled şakir.
- How common is the name Şakir?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 25 people named Şakir, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
- How common is Şakir compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Şakir is the 263rd most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Şakir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FakirThe 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, “Şakir” — the 263rd most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.