Shakura
Shakura was last recorded in 2007, when 7 babies were given it; 197 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakura by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakura?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,211, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1997, the peak
Shakura peaked in 1997, when 21 girls were given it, #4,973 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 7 | #15,211 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,261 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,747 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,576 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,079 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,970 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 11 | #9,040 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,453 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,017 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,973 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 19 | #5,248 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,405 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,250 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,895 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,344 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,262 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,050 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,609 | 4.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,947 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakura a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakura has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakura: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakura, and how old are they?
An estimated 194 Americans named Shakura and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 25 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 193 people named Shakura (189 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 194 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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 14,065 babies since 1880, Shakura is the eighth most given (1.4% 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 Shakura
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 Shakura and names like it
- Compare Shakura and ShakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShakura peaked in 1997.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Shakura.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shakura alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.