Shaakira
Shaakira was last recorded in 2000, when 5 babies were given it; 224 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2000 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaakira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaakira?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,115, in 2000; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
22 babies in 1991, the peak
Shaakira peaked in 1991, when 22 girls were given it, #4,613 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 5 | #17,115 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #16,118 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,848 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,428 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,532 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,585 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,549 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,813 | 11.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,613 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,070 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 11 | #7,348 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,834 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,687 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,340 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,378 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,292 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,384 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,826 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,709 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,092 | 3.6 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,549 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaakira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaakira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaakira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaakira, and how old are they?
An estimated 218 Americans named Shaakira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 33 and 41. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 215 people named Shaakira (213 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 219 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Shaakira?
Shaakira is a less common spelling of Shakira: SSA has recorded 224 Shaakira and 8,276 Shakira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,421 babies since 1880, Shaakira is the eighth most given (1.7% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shaakira
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shaakira and names like it
- Compare Shaakira and ShakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaakira peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaakira since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shaakira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaakira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.