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Shekinah

#5,688 in 2025Girls' name

God's manifested glory or God's presence

Shekinah has been given to 2,146 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #5,688 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Shekinah, 2025

1 in 151,000

Shekinah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shekinah: meaning, origin, and history

God's manifested glory or God's presence

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shekinah means

Shekinah means “God's manifested glory or God's presence”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,146 girls were recorded with the name Shekinah between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 109 in 2000; its best national rank was #1,629 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,984 in 2020 to #5,688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,908 in 2015 to #5,688 in 2025.

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 Shekinah?

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
#5,688
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shekinah 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 Shekinah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shekinahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shekinah was born before 2001 — so the typical Shekinah is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
34.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,146
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 34.0% of all recorded uses (730).

Is Shekinah 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
+1,202
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−704
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,780
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
20.2%
Peak was 2000 (109)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,629
2000

Spellings of Shekinah

Shekinah is not the most common spelling — Sheilah is, with 29.4% against Shekinah's 27.7%.

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 Shekinah is used

Across 1910–2025, Shekinah was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 168,158 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 100,000
  6. 6New York1 in 100,000
  7. 7South Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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. Shekinah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shekinah around the world

Where Shekinah 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
    1997–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    2001–2025
    #4,958
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2012
    #431
    in 2012

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

Shekinah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 704
Best rank ever
#1,629
2000
Peak year
2000
109 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,146
Count in 2025
22

Names similar to Shekinah

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

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Names with a curve like Shekinah

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

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Sibling names for Shekinah

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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