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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Shakur

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#3,832

down −1,468 places

2025 births

29

down −31 births

All-time births

1,613

2% of them in 2025

More common than

92%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1997
119 births
Best rank
#1,073
in 1997
First recorded
1987
#6,812 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
2007
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
35 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1997119#1,073Peak
  2. 199687#1,275
  3. 199881#1,417
  4. 199478#1,328
  5. 199367#1,428

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1,073 in 1997 · peak births 119 in 1997

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 99% boys■ 1% girls

1,613 boys · 9 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 Shakur has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.