Shakita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shakita has been given to 1,202 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 1986, with 81 recorded.
Babies named Shakita, 2001
1 in 748,000
Shakita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shakita?
Shakita 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 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 360,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shakita 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shakitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakita was born before 1986 — so the typical Shakita is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 55.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,202
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 55.4% of all recorded uses (666).
Is Shakita 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 1986 (81)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.1% average annual change
Spellings of Shakita
Shakita is not the most common spelling — Shania is, with 13.1% against Shakita's 0.99%.
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 Shakita is used
Across 1910–2025, Shakita was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 126,716 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 50,000
- 2Florida1 in 50,000
- 3Georgia1 in 50,000
- 4Illinois1 in 50,000
- 5Maryland1 in 100,000
- 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7Virginia1 in 100,000
- 8Alabama1 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. Shakita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shakita around the world
Where Shakita 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.
- South Australia2004–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shakita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shakita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shakita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.