Shakeria
Feminine
The record carries at least six spellings of this sound and not one of them is the Arabic. The word behind the family is a real Arabic adjective, and every American version has added, doubled or moved something — which means the connection is a resemblance rather than a descent.
How old is the name Shakeria?
Shakeria first appears in US birth records in 1978 — 47 years ago. The typical Shakeria alive today was born around 1995, making them about 30 years old. About 1,000 people named Shakeria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Shakeria most popular?
Shakeria peaked in 1995, reaching #1863 nationally. See the whole 1995 chart.
Where it comes from
From an Arabic adjective meaning grateful to Shakeria
Our story of Shakeria
There is a particular kind of borrowing that happens by ear across a whole population at once. Nobody looks anything up; a sound is heard, liked, and rebuilt from familiar parts, and the result has the shape of the original without any of its grammar. That is how English got a great many of its words from Arabic — algebra, alcohol, admiral, all of them reshaped — and it is how a naming system takes a sound from another language now. The purist objection is that the result is not the original. It never is, and it never was.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Arabic word means grateful and is a genuine name across the Muslim world. The American family that resembles it was built from a productive front element and a rotating set of endings, and this spelling adds a final vowel that the Arabic does not have. A family choosing it may have known the Arabic word, may have been going by sound, and the record does not say.
How the name formed
- an Arabic adjective meaning grateful
- the sound enters American naming in the 1970s
- a productive front element attaches to it
- at least six spellings appear in the record
- Shakeria peaks in the middle 1990s
Related forms: Shakira · Shakira
Pronouncing Shakeria
shuh-KEER-ee-uh
Four syllables with the weight on the second. The Arabic has three and puts the stress differently, which is the clearest sign that the two are not the same name.
Nicknames for Shakeria
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
- 1978
- Most girls named
- 199575 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1863reached in 1995
- Change vs 2011
- 0.0%5 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.
Shakeria in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Shakira in Arabic — related form
- Shakira in English — spelling variant
Shakerias among us
people named Shakeria 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
Shakeria 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 at sight by anybody who tries.
- The rhythm is strong and carries well when the name is called.
- Keria is available inside it as a shorter form.
- Six spellings are in circulation and she will be given most of them.
- The Arabic meaning belongs to a different name and cannot be claimed for this one.
- It is closely dated to the last two decades of the century.
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- How many Shakerias are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Shakeria are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Shakeria in 2025?
- Shakeria is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Shakeria will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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