Shakya
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shakya has been given to 179 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2003, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Shakya, 2009
1 in 424,000
Shakya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shakya?
Shakya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 424,000
- 9 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 204,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 294,228 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shakya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 294,228 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shakyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakya was born before 2003 — so the typical Shakya is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 79.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 179
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 79.3% of all recorded uses (142).
Is Shakya 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 2003 (21)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shakya
Shakya is not the most common spelling — Shawna is, with 13.2% against Shakya's 0.05%.
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.
Shakya around the world
Where Shakya 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 Australia2003–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shakya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shakya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shakya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.