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Shakti

#5,686 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Power

Shakti has been given to 233 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #5,686 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 22 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Shakti, 2025

1 in 151,000

Shakti over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Shakti over time

In 2025, Shakti went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19872025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Shakti: meaning, origin, and history

Power

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shakti means

Shakti means “power”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 222 girls were recorded with the name Shakti between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,686 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,510 in 2020 to #5,686 in 2025.

In the United States, 11 boys were recorded with the name Shakti between 1987 and 2017. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2017; its best national rank was #7,944 in 1987.

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.

How common is Shakti?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,686
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shakti 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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakti. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaktis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakti was born before 2018 — so the typical Shakti is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
222
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (90).

Is Shakti 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
+1,518
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,824
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (22)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,686
2025

Spellings of Shakti

Shakti is not the most common spelling — Shari is, with 47.2% against Shakti's 0.26%.

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 Shakti is used

Across 1910–2025, Shakti was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,286,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Shakti has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shakti around the world

Where Shakti 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
    2011–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1989–2019
    #6,267
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #818
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shakti by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,686
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,824
Best rank ever
#5,686
2025
Peak year
2025
22 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
222
Count in 2025
22

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,944
1987
Peak year
2017
6 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shakti

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

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Sibling names for Shakti

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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