Shakya
Shakya was last recorded in 2009, when 9 babies were given it; 179 Americans have been recorded with it between 1993 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,291, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 2003, the peak
Shakya peaked in 2003, when 21 girls were given it, #5,758 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #12,291 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,978 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,041 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,192 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,668 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,714 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,758 | 11.5 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,988 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,910 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,744 | 8.8 |
Every recorded year (14)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 14 | #7,162 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,183 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,666 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,124 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 14 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakya, and how old are they?
An estimated 177 Americans named Shakya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 20 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 190 people named Shakya (182 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above 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).
How common is the spelling Shakya?
Shakya is a less common spelling of Shakia: SSA has recorded 179 Shakya and 2,358 Shakia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,009 babies since 1880, Shakya is the seventh most given (3.6% 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 Shakya
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 Shakya and names like it
- Compare Shakya and ShakiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShakya peaked in 2003.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Shakya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shakya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.