Shekinah
Shekinah was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,688 among girls’ names; 2,146 Americans have been recorded with it since 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,110 Americans named Shekinah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 17 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shekinah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shekinah?
#5,688 among girls’ names, 2025
Shekinah fell from #3,908 in 2015 to #5,688 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 13.7 per million.
109 babies in 2000, the peak
Shekinah peaked in 2000, when 109 girls were given it, #1,629 among girls’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,688 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,890 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,850 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,885 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,714 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,984 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,431 | 14.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,291 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,059 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,336 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,908 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,705 | 23.5 |
| 2013 | 39 | #3,902 | 22.2 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,700 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 50 | #3,298 | 28.4 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,951 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 53 | #3,185 | 28.8 |
| 2008 | 74 | #2,553 | 39.1 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,089 | 29.6 |
| 2006 | 65 | #2,753 | 34.2 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,044 | 28.7 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,474 | 37.6 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,159 | 44.3 |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,136 | 44.0 |
| 2001 | 90 | #1,934 | 50.0 |
| 2000 | 109 | #1,629 | 60.0 |
| 1999 | 72 | #2,125 | 40.6 |
| 1998 | 69 | #2,117 | 39.1 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,977 | 41.9 |
| 1996 | 69 | #2,033 | 39.4 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,974 | 39.8 |
| 1994 | 59 | #2,246 | 33.0 |
| 1993 | 70 | #2,003 | 38.7 |
| 1992 | 40 | #2,963 | 21.7 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,581 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,279 | 17.9 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,859 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,967 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,082 | 17.8 |
| 1986 | 21 | #4,002 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 26 | #3,398 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,219 | 16.0 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,098 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,511 | 14.2 |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,979 | 12.0 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,704 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,591 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,648 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,398 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,980 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shekinah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shekinah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shekinah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shekinah, and how old are they?
2,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,146 Americans ever recorded as Shekinah. The median Shekinah alive today is 25 years old; half are between 17 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,816 people named Shekinah (1,774 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 611 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 381 |
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 Shekinah born?
The states with the most babies named Shekinah are Florida, Texas and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 146 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 70 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 55 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| California | 47 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 26 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| South Carolina | 22 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 17 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Shekinah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shekinah is most over-represented in Florida: since 1976 it was given 1.3 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 Shekinah 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,322 babies since 1880, Shekinah is the most given (92% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 22 babies (100%), again the most given.
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 Shekinah
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 Shekinah and names like it
- Compare Shekinah and ShekinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShekinah peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shekinah since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Shekinah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shekinah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.