Chakira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- sha-KEER-a
- Origin
- Arabic
Chakira is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “grateful”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
What does Chakira mean?
Arabic: variant of Shakira, from Arabic shakira
“grateful”
Variant of Shakira, from the Arabic word for grateful or thankful.
Is Chakira a girl's or a boy's name?
Chakira is a girls' name.
How popular is Chakira in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1992, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1977.
Half of all the girls named Chakira in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2000, the years shaded on the chart below.
Chakira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,810 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,864 |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,387 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,598 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,045 |
| 1992 | 16 | #5,711 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,423 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,239 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,560 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,139 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
Names like Chakira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aisha Dakota Samira Hana Anika Amira Sahara Sasha Radhika Khadija Amina Sakina
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Aaliyah Amir Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Omar Zahra Hamza Kairo
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Chakira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/chakira, updated 20 October 2026.