Shukri

given name · Latin script

Meaning: thanking and acknowledging gratefulness to Allah

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/shuʔri/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Shukri is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Somalia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • MYMalaysia≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 1.8K
  • SOSomalia≈1 in 3.6K

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 Shukri 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.

Somalia (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,300 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
79 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ShukriLatin(measured from records)
შუქრიGeorgian(measured from records)

Locally spelled შუქრი in GE Georgia.

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)

thanking and acknowledging gratefulness to Allah

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of Muslim Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shukri 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 Shukri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SO Somalia—≈3,300 est.≈1 in 3.6K14—5
MY Malaysia#483≈2,800 est.≈1 in 12K—Shukri73
ID Indonesia—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 143K—Shukri15
US United States—1,2321 in 270K956Shukri79
XK Kosovo—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 1.8K1.3K—1
SE Sweden—7591 in 13K759—5
GE Georgia—351as შუქრი1 in 11K351შუქრი8

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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); Puntland PEC/TPEC local-council candidate lists. 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)

Shukri is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Šhûkřî, Shukrī, Shükri, Shuekri

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

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

    Also written Shukrï, Shukrī

  • Bulgarian given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Bulgarian, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Шукри, Шукрі, Shoukry, Şhukri, Šhukri

  • Spanish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, Brazil, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Shukrī

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Shükrī, Shukrī

48 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)

Shukri 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.

  • ‘Giving thanks’. Feminine form: Shukriyya.

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

  • In Swedish, Shukri är ett arabiskt namn med ursprung i ordet shukr ’att tacka’. Shukri är ett mansnamn i arabiska länder, där Shukria är femininformen av Shukri. I Somalia ges namnet Shukri till flickor.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1850190019502000Shukri al-Asali, b. 1868Shukri Sha'sha'ah, b. 1890Shukri al-Quwatli, b. 1891Shukrī Fayṣal, b. 1918Shukrī Muḥammad ʿAyyad, b. 1921Shukri Ghanem, b. 1942Shukri Mustafa, b. 1942Shoukry Bishara, b. 1948Chokri Belhassen, b. 1972

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)

InformalHelo Shukri,Hi Shukri, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 47 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Shukri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020463#49,150
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010230#82,044
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000175#96,480
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—92#7,742
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
  • 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

In which country does Shukri have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Shukri in Somalia, more than in any other country we hold.
What does the name Shukri mean, and where does it come from?
thanking and acknowledging gratefulness to Allah Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
How do you pronounce Shukri?
A machine transcription gives /shuʔri/ (IPA) for Malay.
Is Shukri a male or female name?
Shukri is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What are other forms of the name Shukri?
In the etymology graph, Şukri is a form of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Shukri?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,232 people named Shukri in 2020, about 1 in 270 thousand residents.
How common is Shukri compared with other names?
In Malaysia, Shukri is the 483rd most common given name of 388,685 given names 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, “Shukri” — the 483rd most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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