| [ syll. (s)hu-ra, sh-ura ] The boy name Shura is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is -SHUHRah KEY. Shura is used chiefly in the Russian language and its origin is Old Greek. Shura is a pet form of the name Alexander (Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic). Shura is not regularly used as a baby name for boys. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. Within the group of boy names directly linked to Shura, Alexander (Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic) was the most popular in 2007. Baby names that sound like Shura include Sawyer (English), Shakir (Arabic), Siro (Italian), Caesar (English), Ceri (Welsh), Cesar (German), Cezar (Polish, Portuguese, and Romanian), César (French, Portuguese, and Spanish), Ciro (Italian and Spanish), Sachairi (Scottish), and Sakari (Finnish). KEY: approx English pronunciation for Shura: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; UH as in "hood (HH.UH.D)" ; R as in "read (R.IY.D)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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