Shudra
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʃʊdrɐ/(machine-generated) Ukrainian · model-generated · read from шудра
Shudra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 798K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 14M
- INIndia1 in 60M
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 Shudra itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 798K (inferred from the name graph)
≈430 named Шудра, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Шудра in UA Ukraine, 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)A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shudra 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Шудра | 16 |
| RU Russia | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 852K | — | Шудра | 68 |
| PL Poland | 48 | 1 in 798K | 24 | — | 2 |
| US United States | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 14M | listed | — | 1 |
| IN India | 22 | 1 in 60M | 22 | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Шудра | 13 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)Shudra 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 Portuguese, alternative form of xudra
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Ron Shudrab. 1967CAice hockey player
- Cole Shudrab. 1998GBBritish ice hockey player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 107 | #1,521 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #81,212 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #81,018 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 22 | #75,056 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Shudra mean, and where does it come from?
- A member of the Hindu varna (caste) of workers. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shudra?
- In Ukrainian /ʃʊdrɐ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Shudra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 425 people named Шудра in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shudra most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shudra is densest in Poland — about 1 in 798 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shudra?
- In Poland, the national register counted 48 people named Shudra in 2026, about 1 in 798 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Shudra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shudraThe 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, “Shudra”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.