Shakina — girls' name
668 babies named Shakina in U.S. Social Security records since 1973, with the highest year being 1982. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
46% of everyone ever named Shakina was born in this single decade.
48 babies were named Shakina in 1982 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shakina
The Social Security Administration has registered 668 babies named Shakina between 1973 and 2007, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shakina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2007. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 48 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shakina performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 309 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shakina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 91 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shakina in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shakina 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 668 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.
Shakina at a glance
Last recorded 2007Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shakina popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–1973
- Peak year (1982)
- 48
- Annual births at peak — across 35 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2007.
668 total births across 35 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1982 with 48 births in a single year.
Shakina by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- 309 births that decade — 46% of Shakina's all-time total
Shakina decade highlights
- Peak decade 309 births
- Runner-up 157 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1980s was Shakina's strongest decade
309 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 46% of all-time use.
Shakina by state
Where Shakina concentrates geographically — total births since 1973
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 91 | 13.6% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 17 | 2.5% |
| #3 | Pennsylvania | | 16 | 2.4% |
| #4 | Florida | | 6 | 0.9% |
91 of 668 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 13.6% of nationwide
- Georgia 2.5% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 2.4% of nationwide
- Florida 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 13.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1973–2007 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.