Shaquitta
Shaquitta was last recorded in 1996, when 6 babies were given it; 238 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shaquitta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shaquitta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,202, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1993, the peak
Shaquitta peaked in 1993, when 27 girls were given it, #3,969 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 6 | #13,202 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,639 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,014 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,969 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,670 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,142 | 10.1 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,347 | 12.1 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,365 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,552 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,831 | 9.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 19 | #4,316 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,377 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,924 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,816 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,359 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,832 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,906 | 5.0 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,834 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shaquitta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shaquitta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shaquitta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shaquitta, and how old are they?
An estimated 231 Americans named Shaquitta 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 211 people named Shaquitta (208 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Shaquitta?
Shaquitta is a less common spelling of Shaquita: SSA has recorded 238 Shaquitta and 2,396 Shaquita since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,241 babies since 1880, Shaquitta is the third most given (7.3% 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 Shaquitta
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 Shaquitta and names like it
- Compare Shaquitta and ShaquitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShaquitta peaked in 1993.
- Alabama’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shaquitta since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Shaquitta.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shaquitta alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.