Shaquetta
Shaquetta was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 462 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaquetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaquetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,171, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
42 babies in 1990, the peak
Shaquetta peaked in 1990, when 42 girls were given it, #2,786 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #16,171 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,877 | 4.0 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,497 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,435 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,685 | 16.8 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,562 | 17.1 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,198 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,280 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,786 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,856 | 21.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 34 | #3,026 | 19.1 |
| 1987 | 24 | #3,721 | 13.8 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,161 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 25 | #3,495 | 14.5 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,296 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,784 | 12.6 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,837 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,196 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,685 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,090 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,824 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,402 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,590 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,931 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaquetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaquetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaquetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaquetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 449 Americans named Shaquetta 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. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 355 people named Shaquetta (355 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 452 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,241 babies since 1880, Shaquetta is the second most given (14% 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 Shaquetta
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 Shaquetta and names like it
- Compare Shaquetta and ShaquitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaquetta peaked in 1990.
- South Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaquetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Shaquetta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaquetta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.