Shokan

loc · Latin script

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

Shokan is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Shokan means unity and harmony.

rarermore common
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 20Kas Шокан(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 13M
  • KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 2.9Mas Шокан

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 Shokan 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.

Kazakhstan (inferred from the name graph)

≈960 named Шокан, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
35 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13M (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ШоканCyrillic(measured from records)
ShoqanLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Шокан in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan.

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)

Shokan means unity and harmony

Sources 1

  • YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shokan 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 Shokan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
KZ Kazakhstan≈960 est.≈1 in 20K210Шокан35
RU Russia≈21 est.≈1 in 6.8M—Шокан35
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
KG Kyrgyzstan≈2 est.≈1 in 2.9M—Шокан5
GB United Kingdom——8—1

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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). 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)

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

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Şhokan

26 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)

Shokan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Yoruba, Shokan means unity and harmony

    as a wordYorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Shokan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#23,360
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20263#28,615

Reference works 1

  • 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 Shokan mean, and where does it come from?
Shokan means unity and harmony Recorded by YorubaName Dictionary (CC0, tone-marked Yoruba names with meaning/etymology).
In which country does Shokan have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 960 people named Шокан in Kazakhstan, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Shokan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shokan is densest in Poland — about 1 in 13 million people — even though Kazakhstan holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Shokan?
In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Shokan in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.

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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, “Shokan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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