Shittu

surname · Latin script

Meaning: name form; commonly from Arabic personal name

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/ʃitu/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated

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Shittu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • FIFinland1 in 557K(measured from records)
  • GYGuyana1 in 750K
  • SESweden1 in 1.1M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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.

United States (measured from records)

271 people, 2010

Record sources
144 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 557K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

name form; commonly from Arabic personal name

Cited for this meaning 1

  • African Muslim Names

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Shittu 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.

Where Shittu is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2711 in 1.2M539Shittu144
ES Spain—191 in 2.6M19—2
FI Finland—101 in 557K10—1
SE Sweden—91 in 1.1M9—3
PL Poland—71 in 5.5M5——
BE Belgium—51 in 2.3M5Shittu3
GY Guyana—11 in 750K1—1
NG Nigeria#144———Shittu96

271 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Shittu is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United Kingdom, United States

    Also written Shïttù

43 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
198019902000Danny Shittu, b. 1980Aziz Shittu, b. 1994Simisola Shittu, b. 1999Mansir Shittu Muhammad, b. 1999

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)
FormalDear Mr Shittu,
InformalHi Shittu,

Evidence

(measured from records)

16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Shittu
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020539#43,215
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010271#71,886
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000154#107,038
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—19#86,409
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#44,681
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—9#41,736
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20085#100,369
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#209,338
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20262—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—2#393,338
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 202520251#624

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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

What does the name Shittu mean, and where does it come from?
name form; commonly from Arabic personal name Recorded by African Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Shittu?
In Swahili /ʃitu/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Shittu have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 271 people named Shittu, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shittu.
Where is Shittu most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shittu is densest in Finland — about 1 in 557 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shittu?
In the United States, the national register counted 271 people named Shittu in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
How common is Shittu compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Shittu is the 144th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.

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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.

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, “Shittu” — the 144th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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