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Shaquila

Girls' name

Variant of Shakila

Shaquila has been given to 405 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 1992, with 51 recorded.

Babies named Shaquila, 2000

1 in 420,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shaquila: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Shakila

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shaquila means

Shaquila is a variant of Shakila.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shaquila is used in African American (Rare).

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shakila.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 405 girls were recorded with the name Shaquila between 1974 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 51 in 1992; its best national rank was #2,504 in 1992.

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 Shaquila?

Shaquila had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 420,000
9 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 202,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
291,007 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shaquila 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 2000 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 291,007 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquila. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shaquilas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquila was born before 1991 — so the typical Shaquila is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
62.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
405
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 62.5% of all recorded uses (253).

Is Shaquila 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (51)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,504
1992

Spellings of Shaquila

Shaquila is not the most common spelling — Shaila is, with 28.9% against Shaquila's 3.6%.

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 Shaquila is used

Across 1910–2025, Shaquila was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 794,442 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5North Carolina1 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. Shaquila has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shaquila 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,504
1992
Peak year
1992
51 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
405
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shaquila

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

ShakeilaSharmilaShakilaShamilaShailaShailynnSharanyaShariyahShakailaShaliyahShamiyahShanylaShaindelSharayaShayleneShaddaiShanilaShayanaShalayaShanzayShakiylaSharlineSharrellSharalyn

Sibling names for Shaquila

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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