Shakirah
Shakirah was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 808 Americans have been recorded with it between 1976 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakirah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,374, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1992, the peak
Shakirah peaked in 1992, when 42 girls were given it, #2,856 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #15,374 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,445 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,234 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #19,115 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,598 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,716 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,336 | 5.4 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,462 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,455 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,171 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 20 | #6,207 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,713 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,917 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,789 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,807 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,761 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,176 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,093 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,349 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,129 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,477 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,025 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 41 | #2,924 | 22.7 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,856 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 26 | #4,023 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,791 | 14.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,870 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,449 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,622 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,037 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,036 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,048 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,526 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,738 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,514 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,194 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,689 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,485 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,763 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,559 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakirah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakirah, and how old are they?
An estimated 790 Americans named Shakirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 25 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 670 people named Shakirah (669 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 795 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 Shakirah born?
The states with the most babies named Shakirah are New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, with 96% 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 Jersey | 164 | not ranked | 6.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 62 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Shakirah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shakirah is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1976 it was given 6.9 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 Shakirah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shakirah?
Shakirah is a less common spelling of Shakira: SSA has recorded 808 Shakirah and 8,276 Shakira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,421 babies since 1880, Shakirah is the fifth most given (6.0% 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 Shakirah
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 Shakirah and names like it
- Compare Shakirah and ShakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakirah peaked in 1992.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakirah since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shakirah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakirah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.