Given name & surname
Shukri
Shukri is a masculine given name. It is used in Albanian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1975. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shukri through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 270
- 15 boys · 255 girls
- Most popular year
- 2008
- 18 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −43%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,232 as a first name in 2020; 463 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shukri’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Shukri
- Shukri al-Quwatli1st President of Syrian Republic (1891–1967)
- Shukri GhanemLibyan Prime Minister (1942-2012)
- Shukri MustafaIslamist from Egypt (1942-1978)
- Shukri al-AsaliSyrian nationalist politician1868–1916
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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