Shaquita
Shaquita was last recorded in 2005, when 5 babies were given it; 2,396 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Shaquita and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 34 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaquita by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaquita?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,720, in 2005; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
178 babies in 1986, the peak
Shaquita peaked in 1986, when 178 girls were given it, #908 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 5 | #18,720 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,357 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,957 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,109 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,979 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,957 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,178 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,611 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,106 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,664 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 68 | #2,018 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 92 | #1,641 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 141 | #1,233 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 138 | #1,255 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 168 | #1,078 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 166 | #1,069 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 160 | #1,059 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 144 | #1,095 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 150 | #1,037 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 178 | #908 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 174 | #910 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 139 | #1,026 | 0.08 |
| 1983 | 114 | #1,163 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,984 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,111 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 64 | #1,748 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,014 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #2,230 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,786 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,271 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 23 | #3,081 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,542 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,048 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,067 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaquita a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaquita has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 35 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shaquita: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaquita, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,396 Americans ever recorded as Shaquita. The median Shaquita alive today is 38 years old; half are between 34 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,962 people named Shaquita (1,954 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,343 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 275 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,930 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 118 |
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 Shaquita born?
The states with the most babies named Shaquita are Illinois, Georgia and Mississippi, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Mississippi is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 261 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Georgia | 236 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Mississippi | 162 | not ranked | 6.3× |
| North Carolina | 144 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Florida | 125 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 110 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Alabama | 77 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| South Carolina | 69 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Tennessee | 69 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 64 | not ranked | 1.1× |
Where Shaquita is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shaquita is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1970 it was given 6.3 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 Shaquita 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,241 babies since 1880, Shaquita is the most given (74% 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 Shaquita
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 Shaquita and names like it
- Compare Shaquita and ShaquettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShaquita peaked in 1986.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaquita since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Shaquita.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaquita alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.