Jakira
Feminine
Arabic makes names out of grammar. Shakir is one who is grateful; sabir is one who is patient; nasir is one who helps; hamid is one who praises. Add an a and you have the feminine. A whole class of Arabic names is simply the participle of a verb, and Shakira is one of them.
How old is the name Jakira?
Jakira first appears in US birth records in 1983 — 42 years ago. The typical Jakira alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 1,300 people named Jakira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jakira most popular?
Jakira peaked in 2006, reaching #2206 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 9,726 places below that high. See the whole 2006 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
The story of Jakira
The Arabic active participle is a productive machine for making names: take a three-consonant root, put the vowels in a fixed pattern, and you have the one who is doing the thing. Shakir, grateful. Sabir, enduring. Qadir, capable. Rashid, rightly guided. The feminine adds a final a, and the result is a name that is transparently an adjective — every Arabic speaker hears the grammar. American naming has borrowed the sound of that family without the grammar, so Jakira, Takira and Nakira are built from the ending rather than from a root, and none of them can be parsed the way Shakira can.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source has been established for this spelling. It sits closest to Shakira, Arabic for a grateful woman, with the s replaced. The Ja- opening is an American prefix and carries no meaning, and the compound has none of its own.
Pronouncing Jakira
juh-KEER-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the prefix unstressed. That is the standard pattern for prefixed names, so strangers usually place the weight correctly.
Nicknames for Jakira
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1983
- Most girls named
- 200687 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2206reached in 2006
- Change vs 2024
- −58.8%7 in 2025, from 17
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jakira in other languages
Strongest US states over the last decade: Georgia.
Jakiras among us
people named Jakira are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Jakira
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jakira
- #11932
- Jakira on the 2025 chart
- #940
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jakira went to 7 girls in 2025, but Jakyra is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 20, which makes it the 940th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,992 places above the chart.
- Jakyra13
- Jakira7
About 1 girl in 80,363 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Jakira itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Jacqulin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jakira's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Jacqulin climbed just as high around 1939, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Jacqulin's path sketches the road Jakira is walking now.
Jakira sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Jakira beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jakira in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Three short forms, one of which is a full name in two languages.
- Three open syllables with a regular stress pattern.
- Every sound in it is easy in English and Spanish alike.
- Jakiya, Jakera and Jakirah are all in use, so the spelling will need giving.
- There is no documented meaning behind the compound.
- It will be heard as a version of Shakira, which is a real Arabic word and a very famous person.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jakiras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,300 people named Jakira are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jakira?
- Jakira is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jakyra is the more common one — 13 births in 2025 against 7 for Jakira.
- How popular is the name Jakira in 2025?
- Jakira ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jakira?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Jakira — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jakira with classmates?
- Jakira will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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