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Shakeya

Gender
Girl
Say it
sha-KAY-a
Origin
Modern

Shakeya is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Shakeya come from?

Modern: modern American coinage, Sha- + Keya

Is Shakeya a girl's or a boy's name?

Shakeya is a girls' name.

How popular is Shakeya in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1993, with 50 girls. It first appears in the records in 1975.

Half of all the girls named Shakeya in the US since 1880 were born between 1983 and 1993, the years shaded on the chart below.

1975Busiest: 50 in 19932010
Shakeya in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20105#16,985
20090–
20080–
20076#15,485
20060–
20057#13,003
20040–
20036#13,837
20028#11,102
20018#11,013
20007#11,794
19997#11,378
199816#6,068
199721#4,815
199613#6,718
19959#8,761
199431#3,531
199350#2,484
199237#3,086
199145#2,654
199038#2,952
198934#3,098
198838#2,739
198730#3,098
198628#3,201
198544#2,282
198437#2,514
198339#2,397
198225#3,343
198131#2,847
198023#3,506
197916#4,419
197818#3,924
197724#3,175
197610#5,599
19757#7,171

Names like Shakeya

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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, “Shakeya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shakeya, updated 20 October 2026.