Shakila — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shakila

The Social Security Administration has registered 536 babies named Shakila between 1975 and 2011, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shakila currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2011. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 75 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shakila performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 268 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shakila shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 28 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Shakila in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shakila 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 536 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.