Shakera
Feminine
Shakera resembles an Arabic name and is not it. Shakira is the feminine of an Arabic word meaning grateful, used across the Muslim world, and this spelling is an American formation from a productive front and a common ending that arrived at nearly the same letters. The two are separate words with separate histories.
How old is the name Shakera?
Shakera first appears in US birth records in 1972 — 53 years ago. The typical Shakera alive today was born around 1993, making them about 32 years old. About 1,300 people named Shakera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shakera most popular?
Shakera peaked in 1993, reaching #1529 nationally. See the whole 1993 chart.
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Where it comes from
From An Arabic name meaning grateful to Shakera
Our story of Shakera
Distinguishing a borrowing from a coincidence is the central problem in reading modern names, and there is no clean test. What helps is company. If a name appears alone, at a time when nothing similar is being made, and in communities with a connection to the source language, a borrowing is likely. If it appears in the middle of a large family of names built from the same fronts and endings, at exactly the moment that family is most productive, and in communities with no particular connection to the source, a coincidence is likely. This one is squarely in the second case. The Arabic name exists, is well documented and is used by millions of people, and it is a different word.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Arabic name means grateful or thankful and that reading is settled for that name. This spelling is not that name: it belongs to a family of American coinages built from a front and an ending, both in wide circulation when it appeared, and neither carries meaning. Borrowing the Arabic gloss would be attaching a word to a name that does not descend from it.
How the name formed
- An Arabic name meaning grateful
- A productive American front and a common ending
- The two arriving at nearly the same letters
- Shakera among a large family of coinages
Pronouncing Shakera
shuh-KEER-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle and the first reduced almost to nothing. The Arabic name is said with a fuller first vowel and a different second one, so the two are audibly distinct as well as etymologically separate.
Nicknames for Shakera
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
- 1972
- Most girls named
- 1992102 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1529reached in 1993
- Change vs 2010
- +20.0%6 in 2012, from 5
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.
Shakeras among us
people named Shakera 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
Shakera 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
- The sound is transparent and nobody will need it repeated.
- Kera is a clean short form that is not shared with a crowd.
- It belongs to a documented American naming system with a visible history.
- It will be assumed Arabic, and the honest answer is that it only resembles one.
- Shakira and Shakerra are both in circulation and will be confused with it.
- There is no meaning to give, and the tempting one belongs to a different word.
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Frequently asked
- How many Shakeras 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 Shakera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shakera in 2025?
- Shakera is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Shakera with classmates?
- Shakera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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