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Shakir

#6,738 in 2025Boys' name

Thankful

Shakir has been given to 1,227 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #6,738 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 68 recorded.

Babies named Shakir, 2025

1 in 255,000

Shakir over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shakir: meaning, origin, and history

Thankful

Arabic

What Shakir means

Shakir means “thankful”, associated with šākir.

Origin, language, and formation

Shakir is used in English. Its origins include Arabic.

Shakir comes through Arabic شاكِر.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,217 boys were recorded with the name Shakir between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 68 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,411 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,928 in 2020 to #6,738 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,698 in 2015 to #6,738 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Shakir between 1993 and 1994. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #15,307 in 1994.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shakir?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,738
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shakir sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shakirs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakir was born before 1998 — so the typical Shakir is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
29.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,217
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (358).

Is Shakir 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
−1,525
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−810
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,040
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.81×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.1%
Peak was 1993 (68)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,411
1993

Spellings of Shakir

Shakir is not the most common spelling — Samir is, with 31.4% against Shakir's 3.4%.

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 Shakir is used

Across 1910–2025, Shakir was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 192,493 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Shakir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shakir around the world

Where Shakir 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #2,664
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2025
    #6,362
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shakir by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,738
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 810
Best rank ever
#1,411
1993
Peak year
1993
68 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,217
Count in 2025
13

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,307
1994
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1994
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shakir

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Shakir

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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