Shakari — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shakari

The Social Security Administration has registered 301 babies named Shakari between 1987 and 2010, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shakari currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2010. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Shakari is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 17 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shakari performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 165 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shakari shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Shakari in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shakari 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 301 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.