Shakita
Shakita was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 1,202 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,160 Americans named Shakita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 36 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,491, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
81 babies in 1986, the peak
Shakita peaked in 1986, when 81 girls were given it, #1,522 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,491 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,602 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,187 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 14 | #7,032 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,903 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,247 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,478 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,358 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,587 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 53 | #2,447 | 28.7 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 49 | #2,536 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 68 | #2,002 | 35.8 |
| 1989 | 74 | #1,812 | 40.1 |
| 1988 | 75 | #1,718 | 42.1 |
| 1987 | 75 | #1,641 | 43.1 |
| 1986 | 81 | #1,522 | 47.2 |
| 1985 | 71 | #1,661 | 41.3 |
| 1984 | 68 | #1,629 | 40.4 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,626 | 41.3 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,320 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,828 | 36.6 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,122 | 29.5 |
| 1979 | 49 | #2,080 | 30.5 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,298 | 26.1 |
| 1977 | 41 | #2,243 | 26.7 |
| 1976 | 30 | #2,649 | 20.5 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,613 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,830 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakita has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakita, and how old are they?
1,160 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,202 Americans ever recorded as Shakita. The median Shakita alive today is 40 years old; half are between 36 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 942 people named Shakita (942 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,173 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 233 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 884 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 45 |
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 Shakita born?
The states with the most babies named Shakita are Illinois, Florida and Georgia, with 64% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 126 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 106 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Georgia | 95 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| North Carolina | 56 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Virginia | 52 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Michigan | 26 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 13 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| District of Columbia | 12 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Mississippi | 6 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shakita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shakita is most over-represented in Illinois: since 1974 it was given 2.1 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 Shakita 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,173 babies since 1880, Shakita is the most given (55% of them). In 2025 none of their 22 babies recorded by SSA was a Shakita (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shakita
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 Shakita and names like it
- Compare Shakita and ShaketaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShakita peaked in 1986.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakita since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shakita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.