Girls' name · since 1992
Shakaya
58 babies named Shakaya in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 1992. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #33,343 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 58
- born since 1992
- 2000s
- peak decade
Shakaya is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 58 have been recorded since 1992.
Shakaya has 58 recorded births among girls since 1992, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1992 to 2007.
- #33,343 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 58 born since 1992
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Shakaya ranks #33,343 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 58 born since 1992, peaking in the 2000s.
- #33,343 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 58
- born since 1992
- 2000s
- peak decade
Shakaya's 58 recorded births place it above 53.85% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Shakaya's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Shakaya splits its recorded history at 2001: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1996 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1992 peak of 10 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Shakaya popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1992–2007
- Peak year (1992)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 16 years of records
Shakaya by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (38 births, 66% of the file).
2000s was Shakaya's strongest decade.
38 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 66% of all-time use.
Shakaya births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
20 births
- 2000s
2000s
38 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 38 births (66% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Shakaya: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Similar record span (~15 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, 1992–2007 (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 Shakaya 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.