Shakayla — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shakayla

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,733 babies named Shakayla between 1982 and 2020, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shakayla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 105 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shakayla performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 753 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shakayla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 137 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Shakayla in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shakayla 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 1,733 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.