Shakir
Shakir was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,738 among boys’ names; 1,227 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Shakir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 17 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shakir mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shakir is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “thankful” (شاكِر).
Borrowed from Arabic شاكِر (šākir, “thankful”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shakir?
#6,738 among boys’ names, 2025
Shakir fell from #5,698 in 2015 to #6,738 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 7.6 per million.
73 babies in 1993, the peak
Shakir peaked in 1993, when 73 babies were given it (68 boys, #1,411 among boys’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,738 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,213 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #5,420 | 10.5 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,986 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 23 | #4,468 | 13.1 |
| 2020 | 15 | #5,928 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,112 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,070 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 27 | #3,964 | 14.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,519 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,698 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,225 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 10 | #8,003 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,578 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,160 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,650 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,703 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,633 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,873 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,512 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,789 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,237 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 36 | #2,768 | 18.2 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,075 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 30 | #3,043 | 15.4 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,134 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 28 | #3,015 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,838 | 15.2 |
| 1997 | 30 | #2,666 | 15.9 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,470 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,726 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,032 | 21.2 |
| 1993 | 68 | #1,411 | 34.7 |
| 1992 | 39 | #2,029 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,201 | 9.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,281 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 28 | #2,397 | 14.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,119 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 19 | #2,814 | 10.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,673 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,631 | 4.9 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,075 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 18 | #2,658 | 10.0 |
| 1982 | 19 | #2,583 | 10.5 |
| 1981 | 18 | #2,659 | 10.0 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,352 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,036 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 18 | #2,551 | 11.0 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,340 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 14 | #2,931 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 18 | #2,438 | 11.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,778 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,754 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,623 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,905 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakir has been given almost only to boys: 10 girls in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shakir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakir, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,227 Americans ever recorded as Shakir. The median Shakir alive today is 28 years old; half are between 17 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,320 people named Shakir (66 women and girls, 1,254 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,094 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 132 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 419 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 411 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 223 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Shakir born?
The states with the most babies named Shakir are New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 121 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 93 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 23 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shakir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shakir is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 1.5 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 boys’ 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 Shakir 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,849 babies since 1880, Shakir is the second most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 42 babies (31%), again the second most given.
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 Shakir
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 Shakir and names like it
- Compare Shakir and ShakurBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakir peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakir since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Shakir: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Shakir.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakir alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.