Shakur

loc · Latin script

Meaning: The thankful

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Shakur is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The thankful.

Sources 1

  • The African book of names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shakur counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Shakur is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—51Shakur37
US United States—973—113
NL Netherlands—130—5
GB United Kingdom—86—32
SE Sweden—64—4

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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Shakur is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Shakūr

  • English given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Sha'Kur, Shakùr, Shãkúr, Šhãkùr, Šhäkûr

  • Urdu surname25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Pakistan, India, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Urdu, Arabic, Hindi

    Also written Shakoor, Shakor, শাকুর, শাকর, Shakr

  • a separate name9 spellings in the group

    Also written Shakür, Šhãķüř, Shàkûr, Şhäkùr, Shãkùr

  • French surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Shakür, Shäkur, Shākur, Shakùr, Shãkùr

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Šhãkur

58 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Shakur is also recorded in 2 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, grateful. Al-Shakur ogS4J!, the All-thankful: one of the names of Allah. asta 5S als

    as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names

  • In Arabic, thankful, most grateful; one who gives due appreciation

    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)

1850190019502000Daoud Shakur, b. 1893Assata Shakur, b. 1947Afeni Shakur, b. 1947Tupac Shakur, b. 1971Sekyiwa Shakur, b. 1975Mustafa Shakur, b. 1984

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 44 sources across 25 countries.

Official registers attesting Shakur
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020685#35,388
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010576#38,439
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000329#57,849
GB United KingdomSurnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register)200286#36,388
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—51#43,946
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—44#6,533
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6#51,974
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 does the name Shakur mean, and where does it come from?
The thankful. Recorded by The African book of names.
In which country does Shakur have the most bearers?
Shakur is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shakur.

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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.

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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shakur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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