Shakiyla
Shakiyla was last recorded in 1995, when 12 babies were given it; 398 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakiyla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakiyla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,432, in 1995; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
152 babies in 1991, the peak
Shakiyla peaked in 1991, when 152 girls were given it, #1,155 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 12 | #7,432 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,201 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,657 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 150 | #1,170 | 81.3 |
| 1991 | 152 | #1,155 | 81.1 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,208 | 18.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakiyla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakiyla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 6 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakiyla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakiyla, and how old are they?
An estimated 389 Americans named Shakiyla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 34 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 287 people named Shakiyla (287 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 391 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,135 babies since 1880, Shakiyla is the fourth most given (9.6% 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 Shakiyla
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 Shakiyla and names like it
- Compare Shakiyla and ShakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakiyla peaked in 1991.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakiyla since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shakiyla.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shakiyla alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.