Shaquilla — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shaquilla

The Social Security Administration has registered 520 babies named Shaquilla between 1977 and 2001, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shaquilla currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 100 babies received it in a single year. Shaquilla is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 36 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaquilla performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 406 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shaquilla shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaquilla in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaquilla 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 520 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.