Shakthi — girls' name
80 babies named Shakthi in U.S. Social Security records since 2001, with the highest year being 2015. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
80 girls have been named Shakthi since 2001, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2025.
- 80
- total births
- 2001–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 53%
- born in that decade
53% of everyone ever named Shakthi was born in this single decade.
13 babies were named Shakthi in 2015 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shakthi
The Social Security Administration has registered 80 babies named Shakthi between 2001 and 2025, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shakthi currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 13 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shakthi performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 42 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shakthi shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shakthi in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shakthi in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 80 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Shakthi at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shakthi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–2001
- Peak year (2015)
- 13
- Annual births at peak — across 25 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
80 total births across 25 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2015 with 13 births in a single year.
Shakthi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 42 births that decade — 53% of Shakthi's all-time total
Shakthi decade highlights
- Peak decade 42 births
- Runner-up 23 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Shakthi's strongest decade
42 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 53% of all-time use.
Shakthi by state
Where Shakthi concentrates geographically — total births since 2001
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 6.3% |
5 of 80 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 6.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 6.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2001–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.