Girls' name · since 1978
Shafeqah
14 babies named Shafeqah in U.S. Social Security records since 1978, with the highest year being 1978. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #50,650 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 14
- born since 1978
- 1970s
- peak decade
Shafeqah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 14 recorded since 1978.
Shafeqah has 14 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 1979.
- #50,650 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 14 born since 1978
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shafeqah ranks #50,650 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 14 born since 1978, peaking in the 1970s.
- #50,650 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 14
- born since 1978
- 1970s
- peak decade
Shafeqah's 14 recorded births place it above 29.88% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shafeqah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Shafeqah's SSA record in two at 1979 and the more recent half accounts for 50% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 50%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1978, with only 7 births recorded.
Shafeqah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–1979
- Peak year (1978)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 2 years of records
Shafeqah by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (14 births, 100% of the file).
1970s was Shafeqah's strongest decade.
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Shafeqah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
14 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 14 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shafeqah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1978)
Similar record span (~1 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, 1978–1979 (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 Shafeqah 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.