Meaning not yet researched.
Shakur: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 29 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,073 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,073 in 1997; #3,832 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shakur in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,832 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,073.
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Shakur: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 29 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,073 in 1997 · most boys in one year: 119 (1997).
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Shakur, making it the 3,832nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,468 places from #2,364 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 60 boys named Shakur in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,073, reached in 1997. That year also had the most boys given the name: 119. For comparison, it was #3,500 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shakur in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 6 babies. In all, 1,622 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 547 babies named Shakur.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 523 US boys were named Shakur; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 66. In 2025 that was about 1 in 58,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Shakir, Shaker and Shakeer are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shakir (1,227), Shaker (32), Shakeer (24), Shakor (22), Shaqur (13), Shakar (10), Shaqir (7), Shaquor (5), Shaakir (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shakur in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 29 | #3,832 |
| 2024 | — | — | 60 | #2,364 |
| 2023 | — | — | 65 | #2,217 |
| 2022 | — | — | 56 | #2,489 |
| 2021 | — | — | 66 | #2,168 |
| 2020 | — | — | 55 | #2,412 |
| 2019 | — | — | 63 | #2,227 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,609 |
| 2017 | — | — | 37 | #3,184 |
| 2016 | — | — | 43 | #2,828 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,500 |
| 2014 | — | — | 28 | #3,763 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,844 |
| 2012 | — | — | 25 | #4,108 |
| 2011 | — | — | 19 | #4,955 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,818 |
| 2009 | — | — | 25 | #4,141 |
| 2008 | — | — | 21 | #4,680 |
| 2007 | — | — | 34 | #3,296 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,144 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #3,006 |
| 2004 | — | — | 44 | #2,529 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,027 |
| 2002 | — | — | 46 | #2,287 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,269 |
| 2000 | — | — | 53 | #1,963 |
| 1999 | — | — | 49 | #1,988 |
| 1998 | — | — | 81 | #1,417 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,664 | 119 | #1,073 |
| 1996 | — | — | 87 | #1,275 |
| 1995 | — | — | 46 | #1,886 |
| 1994 | — | — | 78 | #1,328 |
| 1993 | — | — | 67 | #1,428 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,186 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,812 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).