Shakeria
Shakeria was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 999 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakeria by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakeria?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,113, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
75 babies in 1995, the peak
Shakeria peaked in 1995, when 75 girls were given it, #1,873 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #19,113 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,107 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,642 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,809 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,429 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,040 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,525 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,769 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,468 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,395 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 30 | #4,260 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 42 | #3,303 | 23.3 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,968 | 26.4 |
| 1999 | 50 | #2,772 | 28.2 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,283 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,218 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 49 | #2,583 | 28.0 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,873 | 42.6 |
| 1994 | 65 | #2,116 | 36.4 |
| 1993 | 70 | #2,001 | 38.7 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,212 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,277 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,882 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,485 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 28 | #3,456 | 15.7 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,395 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 25 | #3,530 | 14.6 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,295 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,997 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,647 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,277 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,857 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,997 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,807 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,501 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakeria a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakeria has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakeria: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakeria, and how old are they?
An estimated 980 Americans named Shakeria and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 26 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 763 people named Shakeria (760 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 985 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.
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 Shakeria born?
The states with the most babies named Shakeria are Georgia, Florida and Alabama, with 71% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 144 | not ranked | 4.9× |
| Florida | 130 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Alabama | 56 | not ranked | 3.5× |
| Mississippi | 53 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| South Carolina | 44 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| New Jersey | 18 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shakeria is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shakeria is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1978 it was given 4.9 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 Shakeria 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 13,706 babies since 1880, Shakeria is the fourth most given (7.3% 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 Shakeria
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 Shakeria and names like it
- Compare Shakeria and ShakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakeria peaked in 1995.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakeria since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Shakeria.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakeria alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.