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Shakira

#8,790 in 2025Girls' name

Thankful, through Shakir

Shakira has been given to 8,276 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #8,790 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 512 recorded.

Babies named Shakira, 2025

1 in 276,000

Shakira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shakira: meaning, origin, and history

Thankful, through Shakir

Arabic

What Shakira means

Shakira belongs to the name family reached through Shakira → Shakir. Its meaning is “thankful”.

Origin, language, and formation

Shakira is used in English and Albanian. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shakir.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,276 girls were recorded with the name Shakira between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 512 in 2002; its best national rank was #536 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,143 in 2020 to #8,790 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,052 in 2015 to #8,790 in 2025.

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 Shakira?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,790
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shakira sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shakiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakira was born before 1997 — so the typical Shakira is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
8,276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (2,797).

Is Shakira 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
−1,587
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,647
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,738
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.21×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.3%
Peak was 2002 (512)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#536
2002

Spellings of Shakira

Shakira is not the most common spelling — Shania is, with 11.9% against Shakira's 6.2%.

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 Shakira is used

Across 1910–2025, Shakira was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 22,460 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 8,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 8,333
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 10,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Maryland1 in 11,111
  6. 6Mississippi1 in 11,111
  7. 7New York1 in 11,111
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 12,500

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. Shakira has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shakira around the world

Where Shakira 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2002–2008
    #572
    in 2008
  • Northern Ireland
    1999–2009
    #419
    in 2009
  • Ireland
    2002–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2002–2023
    #5,972
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1975–2012
    #431
    in 2012
  • New South Wales
    2002–2002
    #84
    in 2002

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shakira

People whose public names include Shakira, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shakira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,790
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,647
Best rank ever
#536
2002
Peak year
2002
512 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,276
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Shakira

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

ShamiraShairaShaniceShayleeShantelShaniyaShanellShaelynShanayaSharlaShainaSharleneShaindyShanelleShaylynShaniaShastaShaynaShaniahShaylinShakeiraShamekaShaniraShantal

Names with a curve like Shakira

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shakira, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GabrielKasandraReannaYesseniaYajairaFabiolaVanesaAlysaKalynCarliErynFranchesca

Sibling names for Shakira

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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