Shaka — #6907 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shaka

The Social Security Administration has registered 692 babies named Shaka between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shaka currently holds the #6907 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Shaka is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 142 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaka performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 181 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shaka shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 95 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaka in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 692 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.