Shakayla
Shakayla was last recorded in 2020, when 10 babies were given it; 1,734 Americans have been recorded with it between 1982 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,710 Americans named Shakayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakayla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,153, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
105 babies in 2000, the peak
Shakayla peaked in 2000, when 105 girls were given it, #1,682 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 10 | #10,153 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,602 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,050 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,925 | 8.5 |
| 2015 | 19 | #6,686 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 11 | #10,047 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,431 | 11.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,038 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,790 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,171 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 49 | #3,399 | 26.7 |
| 2008 | 64 | #2,826 | 33.8 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,745 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,847 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,544 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 78 | #2,256 | 42.5 |
| 2003 | 76 | #2,254 | 41.6 |
| 2002 | 83 | #2,074 | 46.2 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,773 | 56.1 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,682 | 57.8 |
| 1999 | 88 | #1,822 | 49.6 |
| 1998 | 79 | #1,934 | 44.7 |
| 1997 | 83 | #1,811 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,820 | 46.2 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,971 | 39.8 |
| 1994 | 66 | #2,093 | 37.0 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,823 | 44.2 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,812 | 43.4 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,229 | 31.5 |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,132 | 19.0 |
| 1989 | 25 | #3,989 | 13.6 |
| 1988 | 23 | #3,990 | 12.9 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,693 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,610 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,793 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,995 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,010 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakayla, and how old are they?
1,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,734 Americans ever recorded as Shakayla. The median Shakayla alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 1,309 people named Shakayla (1,304 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,707 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 543 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 96 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shakayla born?
The states with the most babies named Shakayla are Florida, South Carolina and Texas, with 44% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 137 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| South Carolina | 105 | not ranked | 4.5× |
| Texas | 103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 100 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 81 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Louisiana | 68 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 66 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Mississippi | 60 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Virginia | 23 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Shakayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shakayla is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1982 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shakayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,135 babies since 1880, Shakayla is the most given (42% 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 Shakayla
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 Shakayla and names like it
- Compare Shakayla and ShakilaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShakayla peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakayla since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Shakayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shakayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.