Shukuru

given name · Latin script

Meaning: to thank

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 567K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 2M

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

18 people

Sources
11 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 567K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

to thank

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Shukuru 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 Shukuru is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden181 in 567K18——
DK Denmark31 in 2M3——
IN India——46Shukuru4
TZ Tanzania———Shukuru11
US United States——7Shukuru2

18 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)

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

  • Hindi given name58 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Russian

    Also written Sukra, Shukur, Шукур, Shukru, Shukaru

37 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)

Shukuru 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.

  • In Arabic, be grateful; gratitude

    as a nameAfrican Muslim Names

  • grateful

    as a nameWhats in a name = Unaitwaje a Swahili book of 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)

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)

InformalHi Shukuru,

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 11 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Shukuru
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—46#47,142
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—15#30,730
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • 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 Shukuru mean, and where does it come from?
to thank Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Shukuru?
A machine transcription gives /ʃukuɾu/ (IPA) for Swahili.
Is Shukuru a male or female name?
Shukuru 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 Shukuru have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 18 people named Shukuru, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Shukuru most common?
Shukuru is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 567 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Shukuru?
In Sweden, the national register counted 18 people named Shukuru, about 1 in 567 thousand 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, “Shukuru”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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