Shakur
Last seen for girls in 1997 at #9,017 · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1997 · 119 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,613since 1987
Shakur over time
Rank among boys' names. Shakur has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,757 | 29 | |
| 2024 | — | #2,345 | 60 | |
| 2023 | — | #2,188 | 65 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,468 | 56 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,157 | 66 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,392 | 55 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,213 | 63 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,579 | 49 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,123 | 37 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,783 | 43 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,431 | 32 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,753 | 27 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,003 | 25 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,678 | 20 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,035 | 25 | |
| 2008 | — | #4,540 | 21 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,250 | 34 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,083 | 35 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,960 | 35 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,489 | 44 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,006 | 57 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,249 | 46 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,249 | 45 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,944 | 53 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,966 | 49 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,406 | 81 | |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #1,065 | 119 |
| 1996 | — | #1,265 | 87 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,864 | 46 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,322 | 78 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,420 | 67 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
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| 1987 | — | #6,089 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shakur! It came in at #6,089, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1991, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shakur
- 1,412 spots since 2024 (#2,345 → #3,757)
- 1,365 spots since 2020 (#2,392 → #3,757)
- 326 spots since 2015 (#3,431 → #3,757)
- Debuted 1987
- Peaked 1997 at #1,065 (119 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,842 boys born in 1997 were named Shakur (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 33.4% of all boys named Shakur (538) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #6,089 (1987) | #6,089 |
| 1990s | 538 | #1,065 (1997) | #1,898 |
| 2000s | 395 | #1,944 (2000) | #2,881 |
| 2010s | 343 | #2,213 (2019) | #3,508 |
| 2020s | 331 | #2,157 (2021) | #2,551 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shakur in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 21,774 of them was named Shakur, which outranked 88.0% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,257Sunny88
- #1,257Tyrel88
- #1,257Virgil88
- #1,265Shakur87
- #1,265Abelardo87
- #1,265Adriel87
- #1,265Donta87
- #1,278Brayton86
- #1,278Darrel86
- #1,278Geovanni86
Tied with 12 names at #1,265; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.