Shakari
Shakari was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 318 Americans have been recorded with it between 1987 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakari?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,377, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
50 babies in 1990, the peak
Shakari peaked in 1990, when 50 girls were given it, #2,453 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #19,377 | 2.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,727 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,454 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,776 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,100 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,943 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,370 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,968 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,596 | 4.4 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,031 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 11 | #8,228 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,367 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,976 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,806 | 11.8 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,552 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,240 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,766 | 11.2 |
| 1990 | 50 | #2,453 | 26.3 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,483 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,021 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 37 | #2,702 | 21.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 318 Americans recorded as Shakari, 95% are girls and 5% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shakari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakari, and how old are they?
An estimated 311 Americans named Shakari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 28 and 36. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 334 people named Shakari (285 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,529 babies since 1880, Shakari is the seventh most given (2.4% 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 Shakari
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 Shakari and names like it
- Compare Shakari and ShakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakari peaked in 1990.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakari since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shakari.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakari alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.