Sakira
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Sakira has been given to 108 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1987, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Sakira, 2024
1 in 669,000
Sakira over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Sakira?
Sakira had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Sakira sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sakira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Sakiras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Sakira was born before 2002 — so the typical Sakira is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 46.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 108
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 46.3% of all recorded uses (50).
Is Sakira rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1987 (10)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.6% average annual change
Spellings of Sakira
Sakira is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 53.6% against Sakira's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Sakira around the world
Where Sakira ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2010–2014#6,699in 2014
- South Australia2002–2002#730in 2002
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Sakira by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Sakira
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Sakira
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.