Girls' name · since 1979
Shacoya
187 babies named Shacoya in U.S. Social Security records since 1979, with the highest year being 1989. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #20,527 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 187
- born since 1979
- 1990s
- peak decade
Shacoya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 187 have been recorded since 1979.
Shacoya has 187 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 1999.
- #20,527 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 187 born since 1979
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shacoya ranks #20,527 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 187 born since 1979, peaking in the 1990s.
- #20,527 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 187
- born since 1979
- 1990s
- peak decade
Shacoya's 187 recorded births place it above 71.61% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shacoya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Shacoya's SSA record in two at 1991 and the more recent half accounts for 61% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 39%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1979, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 1989 peak of 21, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Shacoya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–1999
- Peak year (1989)
- 21
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Shacoya by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (125 births, 67% of the file).
1990s was Shacoya's strongest decade.
125 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Shacoya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
56 births
- 1990s
1990s
125 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 125 births (67% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shacoya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~20 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1979–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Shacoya draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.