Shaquita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaquita has been given to 2,396 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 178 recorded.
Babies named Shaquita, 2005
1 in 769,000
Shaquita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shaquita?
Shaquita 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 Shaquita sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaquitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquita was born before 1988 — so the typical Shaquita is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 51.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,391
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 51.2% of all recorded uses (1,225).
Is Shaquita 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (178)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shaquita
Shaquita is not the most common spelling — Laquita is, with 22.7% against Shaquita's 8.5%.
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 Shaquita is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaquita was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 70,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 12,500
- 2Georgia1 in 20,000
- 3Alabama1 in 33,333
- 4Illinois1 in 33,333
- 5North Carolina1 in 33,333
- 6South Carolina1 in 33,333
- 7Florida1 in 50,000
- 8Tennessee1 in 50,000
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. Shaquita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaquita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shaquita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Shaquita
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shaquita, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Shaquita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.