Shekina
Shekina was last recorded in 2011, when 6 babies were given it; 176 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shekina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shekina?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,478, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1976, the peak
Shekina peaked in 1976, when 14 girls were given it, #4,562 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 6 | #16,478 | 3.4 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,130 | 5.6 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,965 | 3.3 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,626 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,289 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,602 | 2.6 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,699 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,192 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,511 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,457 | 3.4 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 6 | #13,136 | 3.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,549 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,937 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,388 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,454 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,984 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,748 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,997 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,528 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,305 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,919 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,392 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,790 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,562 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,024 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shekina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shekina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shekina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shekina, and how old are they?
An estimated 171 Americans named Shekina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 41 years old and half are between 24 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 266 people named Shekina (256 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Shekina rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 Shekina?
Shekina is a less common spelling of Shekinah: SSA has recorded 176 Shekina and 2,146 Shekinah since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,322 babies since 1880, Shekina is the second most given (7.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 22 babies recorded by SSA was a Shekina (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shekina
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 Shekina and names like it
- Compare Shekina and ShekinahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShekina peaked in 1976.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shekina since 1910.
- The top names of 1976The year the most babies were named Shekina.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shekina alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.