Shaquana — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaquana

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,286 babies named Shaquana between 1973 and 2005, spanning 33 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaquana currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2005. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 209 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaquana performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 1,022 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shaquana shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 853 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaquana in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaquana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,286 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.