girls:
627 births since 1974
#5089 (11th percentile)
overall:
627 births since 1974
#7112 (8th percentile)
The name Shakima is the #7,112 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 627 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 8.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,089 (10.9% percentile) for all time with 627 births since 1974.
Shakima first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (first recorded for girls in 1974). Birth data for Shakima is available in 29 out of the 31 years between 1974 and 2004. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Shakima reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #781) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shakima".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Shakima is pronounced as shuh-KEE-muh, which has 3 syllables.
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