Shaukat
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shaukat is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. Recorded meaning: desired.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 6.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 23K
- USUnited States1 in 774K
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 Shaukat 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
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Шаукат in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
desired
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shaukat 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 | #25 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 1 | Shaukat | 97 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Shaukat | 21 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Shaukat | 36 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Shaukat | 43 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 198K | #698 | Шаукат | 86 |
| US United States | — | 430 | 1 in 774K | 453 | Shaukat | 170 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 71K | 37 | Шаукат | 22 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Shaukat | 11 |
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: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations. 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)
Shaukat 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.
dignity; grandeur;
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
Grandeur,
as a nameDictionary of Islamic 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)
- Ali Shaukatb. 1897INfield hockey player (1897–1960)
- Shaukat Thanvib. 1904PKPakistani writer
- Shaukatullah Shah Ansarib. 1908INnot in their usual nameIndian politician
- Shaukat Hussain Rizvib. 1914PKPakistani actor, film producer and film director
- Shaukat Hayat Khanb. 1915INMember of the Punjab Assembly (1915-1998)
- Shaukat Siddiquib. 1923PKPakistani writer
- Şäwkät Ğäliefb. 1928RUnot in their usual namepoet (1928–2011)
- Shaukat Kaifib. 1928INIndian actress
- Shaukat Azizb. 1949PKPakistani banker and politician (born 1949)
- Shaukat Tarinb. 1953PKPakistani politician
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 37 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 453 | #49,989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 340 | #59,470 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 215 | #81,700 |
| PK Pakistan | Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election | 2018 | 1 | #961 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- What does the name Shaukat mean, and where does it come from?
- desired Recorded by African Muslim Names.
- Is Shaukat a male or female name?
- Shaukat 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 Shaukat have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Shaukat in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaukat.
- How common is the name Shaukat?
- In the United States, the national register counted 430 people named Shaukat in 2020, about 1 in 774 thousand residents.
- How common is Shaukat compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Shaukat is the 25th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shaukatThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Shaukat” — the 25th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.