Shaka
Recorded for both sexesMillennial2025 rank
#13,591
down −6,391 places
2025 births
5
down −7 births
All-time births
697
1% of them in 2025
More common than
86%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1987
- 39 births
- Best rank
- #1,539
- in 1977
- First recorded
- 1970
- #5,325 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1992
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 49 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 198739#1,731Peak
- 197737#1,539
- 198835#1,907
- 197625#1,988
- 199225#2,811
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,539 in 1977 · peak births 39 in 1987
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 83% boys■ 17% girls
697 boys · 142 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Shaka has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.