Shakira
Shakira was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,790 among girls’ names; 8,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,100 Americans named Shakira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shakira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shakira is “a female given name from Arabic, masculine equivalent Shakir.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shakira?
#8,790 among girls’ names, 2025
Shakira fell from #3,052 in 2015 to #8,790 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 31.4 to 7.5 per million.
512 babies in 2002, the peak
Shakira peaked in 2002, when 512 girls were given it, #536 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,790 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,203 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,419 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,942 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,915 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,143 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,885 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,543 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,637 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,970 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #3,052 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,835 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 60 | #2,867 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,088 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,295 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 125 | #1,694 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 153 | #1,501 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 134 | #1,676 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 244 | #1,080 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 353 | #780 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 220 | #1,084 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 190 | #1,183 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 337 | #747 | 0.18 |
| 2002 | 512 | #536 | 0.28 |
| 2001 | 269 | #852 | 0.15 |
| 2000 | 263 | #845 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 256 | #845 | 0.14 |
| 1998 | 247 | #861 | 0.14 |
| 1997 | 383 | #596 | 0.22 |
| 1996 | 347 | #647 | 0.20 |
| 1995 | 263 | #768 | 0.15 |
| 1994 | 280 | #743 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 260 | #787 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 285 | #742 | 0.15 |
| 1991 | 257 | #795 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 219 | #887 | 0.12 |
| 1989 | 181 | #963 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 156 | #1,035 | 0.09 |
| 1987 | 184 | #907 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 136 | #1,096 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 133 | #1,094 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 139 | #1,025 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 147 | #989 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 179 | #863 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 116 | #1,156 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 98 | #1,307 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 98 | #1,292 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 106 | #1,190 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 120 | #1,086 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 116 | #1,063 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 62 | #1,602 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 67 | #1,483 | 0.05 |
| 1973 | 74 | #1,360 | 0.05 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,208 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,711 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakira, and how old are they?
8,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,276 Americans ever recorded as Shakira. The median Shakira alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 7,544 people named Shakira (7,528 women and girls, 16 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,049 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 738 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 388 |
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 Shakira born?
The states with the most babies named Shakira are New York, Florida and New Jersey, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 1,122 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Florida | 624 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New Jersey | 547 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 421 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 420 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Texas | 371 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 363 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 353 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 329 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| South Carolina | 237 | not ranked | 2.1× |
Where Shakira is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shakira is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1970 it was given 2.3 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 Shakira 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 14,201 babies since 1880, Shakira is the most given (58% 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 Shakira
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 Shakira and names like it
- Compare Shakira and ShakeraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShakira peaked in 2002.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakira since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Shakira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Shakira.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shakira alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.