Shakela
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shakela has been given to 456 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1991, with 57 recorded.
Babies named Shakela, 2001
1 in 624,000
Shakela 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shakela?
Shakela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 624,000
- 6 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 300,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 432,315 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shakela sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 432,315 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shakelas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakela was born before 1991 — so the typical Shakela is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 51.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 96.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 456
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 51.1% of all recorded uses (233).
Is Shakela 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
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- 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 1991 (57)
- Years since peak
- 34
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shakela
Shakela is not the most common spelling — Shayla is, with 32.5% against Shakela's 0.48%.
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.
Where Shakela is used
Across 1910–2025, Shakela was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 458,034 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in —
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shakela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shakela around the world
Where Shakela 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.
- England & Wales1998–2004#4,598in 2004
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shakela by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shakela
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shakela
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.