Shakyra
Shakyra was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 1,136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1981 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,120 Americans named Shakyra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 22 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shakyra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shakyra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,746, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
73 babies in 2001, the peak
Shakyra peaked in 2001, when 73 girls were given it, #2,228 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,746 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,276 | 3.9 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,146 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,725 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,349 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,207 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,722 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,364 | 18.2 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,553 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,308 | 25.4 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 38 | #3,804 | 20.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,663 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,522 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,228 | 40.5 |
| 2000 | 52 | #2,807 | 28.6 |
| 1999 | 49 | #2,807 | 27.6 |
| 1998 | 56 | #2,489 | 31.7 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,250 | 35.0 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,837 | 24.5 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,717 | 25.6 |
| 1994 | 56 | #2,340 | 31.4 |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,563 | 27.1 |
| 1992 | 58 | #2,287 | 31.5 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,726 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 31 | #3,496 | 16.3 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,097 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,193 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,838 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 10 | #7,026 | 5.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,160 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,477 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,166 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,065 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,132 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shakyra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shakyra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shakyra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shakyra, and how old are they?
1,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,136 Americans ever recorded as Shakyra. The median Shakyra alive today is 27 years old; half are between 22 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 879 people named Shakyra (870 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,122 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 430 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 676 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Shakyra?
Shakyra is a less common spelling of Shakira: SSA has recorded 1,136 Shakyra and 8,276 Shakira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,201 babies since 1880, Shakyra is the third most given (8.0% 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 Shakyra
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 Shakyra and names like it
- Compare Shakyra and ShakiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShakyra peaked in 2001.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shakyra since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Shakyra.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shakyra alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.