girls:
9 births since 1997
#5707 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.5k births since 1987
#3134 (32nd percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1987
#6216 (20th percentile)
The name Shakur is the #6,216 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,529 recorded births since 1987. This represents the 19.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,134 (31.6% percentile) for all time with 1,520 births since 1987. For girls, it ranks #5,707 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 9 births since 1997.
Shakur first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1987 (1987 for boys and 1997 for girls). Birth data for Shakur is available in 33 out of the 37 years between 1987 and 2023 (33 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Shakur has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shakur reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 14.4% percentile (ranked #678) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 60 births per million (ranked 14.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2012, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Shakur ranks #854 for boys (6.3% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 56.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shakur reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #859) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shakur".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shakur. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.6% confident that Shakur is pronounced as shuh-KOOR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHAH-ker, at 19.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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