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Shaquana

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shaquana has been given to 2,286 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1991, with 209 recorded.

Babies named Shaquana, 2005

1 in 769,000

Shaquana over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaquana: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaquana means

Shaquana is a given name.

The naming story behind Shaquana

Wikidata records Shaquana as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q114703006, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,286 girls were recorded with the name Shaquana between 1973 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 209 in 1991; its best national rank was #919 in 1991.

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 Shaquana?

Shaquana had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2005
1 in 769,000
5 of 3,844,258 births
Among girls only
1 in 369,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2005
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
532,928 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaquana 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 2005 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 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaquanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquana was born before 1989 — so the typical Shaquana is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,286
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (1,022).

Is Shaquana 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (209)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#919
1991

Spellings of Shaquana

Shaquana is not the most common spelling — Shauna is, with 68.5% against Shaquana's 5.6%.

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 Shaquana is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaquana was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 50,606 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 14,286
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 16,667
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 25,000
  4. 4North Carolina1 in 33,333
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 100,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Maryland1 in 100,000

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

Shaquana around the world

Where Shaquana 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
    2005–2005
    #4,798
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    2004–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Shaquana

People whose public names include Shaquana, 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.

Shaquana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#919
1991
Peak year
1991
209 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
2,286
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shaquana

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

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Names with a curve like Shaquana

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

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Sibling names for Shaquana

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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