Shakara
Feminine
Shakara has three of the same vowel letter in it and not one of them is said the same way. That is not a fault of the name; it is a fault of English, and this name displays it unusually clearly.
How old is the name Shakara?
Shakara first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Shakara alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 900 people named Shakara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shakara most popular?
Shakara peaked in 1990, reaching #2029 nationally. See the whole 1990 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Shakara
Say it slowly. The first a is a short unstressed sound, barely there. The second carries the stress and is long and open. The third is the colorless vowel that ends thousands of English words and is not really an a at all. Three appearances of one letter, three different sounds, and an English reader handles it without a moment's hesitation — which is worth pausing on, because it is genuinely difficult. The letter does not tell you the sound; the position in the word does, and readers learn the pattern so young that they forget it was ever learned. Anyone acquiring English later finds this the hardest thing about it, and names built from these letters are among the clearest demonstrations of how the system actually works.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source. The middle of the name matches words in Turkish, Italian and Irish, all of them unrelated to each other and none of them behind this name. It was built in America from a front and an ending that were both in circulation.
Pronouncing Shakara
shuh-KAR-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. The first and last vowels are both reduced; only the middle one is fully sounded.
Nicknames for Shakara
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
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 199066 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2029reached in 1990
- Change vs 2008
- −37.5%5 in 2010, from 8
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.
Shakaras among us
people named Shakara are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Shakara sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It is read correctly on sight despite the vowels, because the pattern is completely regular.
- The stressed middle carries well and resists shortening.
- It shortens to a name that stands on its own.
- Shakira, Shakara and Chakara are all nearby and hers will be written as one of them.
- The name dates its bearer to a particular decade.
- The foreign words it resembles are unrelated to it and to each other.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shakaras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Shakara are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shakara in 2025?
- Shakara is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shakara with classmates?
- Shakara will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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