Shukra
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Shukra is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Shukra is also written শুকুর in Bengali.
- GYGuyana1 in 750K(measured from records)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 200Kas Sukor
- INIndia≈1 in 210Kas Shukar
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shukra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 750K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,000 named Shukar, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shukra in other scripts: Latin and Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shukar in IN India, PK Pakistan, Sukor in MY Malaysia, SG Singapore, শুকুর in BD Bangladesh and Shakru in NG Nigeria.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shukra 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 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 208K | 44 | Shukar | 25 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 888K | — | শুকুর | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Sukor | 43 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Shakru | 4 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | listed | Shukar | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 580K | — | Sukor | 16 |
| GY Guyana | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
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; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Shukra 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 English, The son of Bhrigu, and preceptor of the Daityas, and the guru of the Asuras, identified with the planet Venus.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shukra a male or female name?
- Shukra 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Shukra?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.0 thousand people named Shukar in India, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bangladesh, Malaysia, Nigeria and Pakistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Shukra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shukra is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 750 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shukra?
- In Guyana, the national register counted 1 people named Shukra in 2025, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shukra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shukraThe 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, “Shukra” — ranked 48301st in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.