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 1997
Top girls' names in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
girls
1,740,710 girls got a published name in 1997; 1 in 193,412 of them was named Shakur, which outranked 44.2% of the 16,163 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,334Zarriah10
- #8,334Zerina10
- #8,334Zeynep10
- #9,017Shakur9
- #9,017Aaminah9
- #9,017Aarica9
- #9,017Abagael9
- #9,802Aaliayah8
- #9,802Aamina8
- #9,802Aaren8
Tied with 784 names at #9,017; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 15,842 of them was named Shakur, which outranked 90.2% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,058Stewart120
- #1,058Tyreek120
- #1,058Tyrus120
- #1,065Shakur119
- #1,065Dezmond119
- #1,065Emerson119
- #1,065Jawan119
- #1,075Bruno118
- #1,075Brycen118
- #1,075Courtland118
Tied with 9 names at #1,065; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.