Shakara — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shakara

The Social Security Administration has registered 896 babies named Shakara between 1976 and 2010, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shakara currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 66 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shakara performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 417 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shakara shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 41 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Shakara in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shakara 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 896 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.