Shaquetta — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shaquetta

The Social Security Administration has registered 462 babies named Shaquetta between 1974 and 1998, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaquetta currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 42 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaquetta performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 217 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shaquetta shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in South Carolina, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaquetta in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaquetta 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 462 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.