Shakun
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃekun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shakun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GHGhana≈1 in 475K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 761K
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 1M
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 Shakun 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 475K (inferred from the name graph)
211 named Sokun, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ghana, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Shukno 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shakun 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 211as Sokun | 1 in 1.6M | 117 | Shakun | 92 |
| BD Bangladesh | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | — | Shukno | 1 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Shakun | 5 |
| GH Ghana | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 475K | — | Shakun | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1M | — | Shakun | 4 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 761K | — | Shakun | 5 |
211 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling sokun. 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. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anatoliy Shakunb. 1948ROassociation football player (1948-2020)
- Anastasiia Shakunb. 2002ice dancer
- Jeremy D. ShakunUSAmerican paleoclimatologist
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 10 sources across 4 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Shakun?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃekun/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Shakun a male or female name?
- Shakun is a female 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 Shakun have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 211 people named Sokun, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Shakun?
- In the United States, the national register counted 211 people named Sokun in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shakun?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shakunThe 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, “Shakun”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.