Shaquana
Shaquana was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 2,286 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,220 Americans named Shaquana and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 34 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaquana by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaquana?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,719, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
209 babies in 1991, the peak
Shaquana peaked in 1991, when 209 girls were given it, #919 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,719 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,558 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,221 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #15,097 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,026 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,461 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 22 | #5,005 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,340 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,688 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,618 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 70 | #1,972 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,500 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 131 | #1,296 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 144 | #1,211 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 209 | #919 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 175 | #1,031 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 158 | #1,071 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 137 | #1,125 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 121 | #1,198 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 137 | #1,092 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 101 | #1,321 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 109 | #1,202 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 68 | #1,643 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 86 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 63 | #1,784 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 42 | #2,333 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 64 | #1,728 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,229 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,297 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,987 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,316 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,691 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,136 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaquana a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaquana has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaquana: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaquana, and how old are they?
2,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,286 Americans ever recorded as Shaquana. The median Shaquana alive today is 37 years old; half are between 34 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,748 people named Shaquana (1,745 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,238 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 237 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 173 |
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).
Where are babies named Shaquana born?
The states with the most babies named Shaquana are New York, New Jersey and North Carolina, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 853 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| New Jersey | 162 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| North Carolina | 138 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| South Carolina | 132 | not ranked | 4.3× |
| Virginia | 55 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 53 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Connecticut | 17 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Maryland | 17 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Shaquana is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaquana is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 5.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shaquana with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,536 babies since 1880, Shaquana is the most given (65% 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 Shaquana
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 Shaquana and names like it
- Compare Shaquana and ShaquannaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaquana peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaquana since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shaquana.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaquana alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.