Shakia
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shakia has been given to 2,358 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 1993, with 153 recorded.
Babies named Shakia, 2016
1 in 612,000
Shakia 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shakia?
Shakia had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 612,000
- 6 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 295,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 423,922 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shakia sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shakias were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakia was born before 1990 — so the typical Shakia is around 35 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 40.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 42.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,358
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 40.3% of all recorded uses (950).
Is Shakia 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (153)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Shakia
Shakia is not the most common spelling — Shelia is, with 9.9% against Shakia's 0.49%.
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 Shakia is used
Across 1910–2025, Shakia was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 78,866 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 12,500
- 2Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
- 3District of Columbia1 in 50,000
- 4Florida1 in 50,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6New Jersey1 in 50,000
- 7New York1 in 50,000
- 8South Carolina1 in 50,000
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. Shakia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shakia around the world
Where Shakia 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 & Wales1999–2013#2,887in 2013
- South Australia1991–2011#840in 2011
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.
Shakia by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shakia
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Shakia
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shakia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Shakia
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.