Ted Hughes, the English poet and husband of Sylvia Plath, had a daughter named Shura by his German mistress, Assia Wevill. At age four, Shura was killed by her mother, who committed suicide shortly afterward - in the same manner as Sylvia Plath, who had died six years earlier.
In Russian there is also masculine version of Shura - Shurik. Really famous bearer was Shurik from Russian comedy films, for example "operation i". The whole Soviet Union loved him.