Shakela
Shakela was last recorded in 2001, when 6 babies were given it; 456 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakela?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,010, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1991, the peak
Shakela peaked in 1991, when 57 girls were given it, #2,281 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 6 | #15,010 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,136 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,449 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,800 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,657 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,053 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,199 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 22 | #4,658 | 12.3 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,145 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,372 | 29.8 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 57 | #2,281 | 30.4 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,391 | 7.4 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,447 | 7.1 |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,017 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,248 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,861 | 12.8 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,493 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,136 | 11.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,388 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,276 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,513 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,182 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,597 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,875 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,146 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,516 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,272 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakela, and how old are they?
An estimated 443 Americans named Shakela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 33 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 407 people named Shakela (403 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 446 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below 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 4,164 babies since 1880, Shakela is the third most given (11% 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 Shakela
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 Shakela and names like it
- Compare Shakela and ShakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakela peaked in 1991.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakela since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shakela.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakela alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.