Shakti
Shakti was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,686 among girls’ names; 233 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakti by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakti?
#5,686 among girls’ names, 2025
Shakti entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #5,686 in 2025.
22 babies in 2025, the peak
Shakti peaked in 2025, when 22 girls were given it, #5,686 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 16 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,686 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,204 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,578 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,454 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #11,021 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,510 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,073 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,314 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,225 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,729 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 6 | #16,210 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,235 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,270 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,998 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,717 | 3.9 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,129 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,263 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,551 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,101 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,746 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,933 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,103 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,141 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakti a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 233 Americans recorded as Shakti, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 22 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shakti: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakti, and how old are they?
An estimated 231 Americans named Shakti and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 486 people named Shakti (303 women and girls, 183 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 146 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,810 babies since 1880, Shakti is the third most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 22 babies (100%), the most given that year.
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 Shakti
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 Shakti and names like it
- Compare Shakti and ShakitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakti since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shakti.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shakti alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.