Shakir
given name · Latin script
Meaning: thankful, grateful, contented
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʃækɪɹ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shakir is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 4K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 7K
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 Shakir itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 267 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Шакир in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, AZ Azerbaijan.
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)
thankful, grateful, contented
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shakir 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #306 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Shakir | 80 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Shakir | 47 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #552 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Shakir | 47 |
| RU Russia | #999 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 59K | #485 | Шакир | 116 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #565 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 115 | Шакир | 19 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #467 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Shakir | 63 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #772 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Шакир | 11 |
| US United States | — | 1,320 | 1 in 252K | 2.1K | Shakir | 267 |
| OM Oman | #202 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | — | Shakir | 18 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice — Civil Registry Name Statistics. 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)
Shakir is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, thankful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Arabic, grateful
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
‘Thankful’, ‘grateful’.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Arabic, thankful, grateful. Al-Shaakir >SLitl, the All-thankful: one of the names of Allah. sts i! gu aule "Allah is All-thankful, All-knowing." (surat al-Bagarah 2:158). Muslims wish to acknowledge as often as possible their gratefulness to Allah for all the bounties He has provided for them in this world. See Shakur 5S
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
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)
- Shakir Mustafa Salimb. 1919IQIraqi anthropologist
- Shākir Muṣṭafáb. 1921SYSyrian historian
- Shakir Hassan Al Saidb. 1925IQIraqi painter (1925-2004)
- Shakir Khusbakb. 1930IQIraqi geographer and novelist
- Shakir Mutlaqb. 1938SYSyrian ophthalmologist and poet
- Şakir Selimb. 1942UAnot in their usual nameSoviet writer and poet (1942-2008)
- Shakir al-'Ashurb. 1947IQIraqi poet
- Shākir ʻAbd al-Ḥamīdb. 1952EGEgyptian politician (1952–2021)
- Shakir Lou'aybib. 1955IQIraqi painter, author and poet
- 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 64 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #14,034 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.5K | #18,317 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.2K | #20,960 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 are other forms of the name Shakir?
- In the etymology graph, Şakir is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Shakir mean, and where does it come from?
- thankful, grateful, contented Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Shakir?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʃækɪɹ/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shakir a male or female name?
- Shakir 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 Shakir have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Shakir in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shakir.
- How common is the name Shakir?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,320 people named Shakir in 2020, about 1 in 252 thousand residents.
- How common is Shakir compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shakir is the 306th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shakir?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shakirThe 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, “Shakir” — the 306th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.