Shakur
Shakur is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 59 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 590.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1997119 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1987
- 1,582people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,582 boys have been named Shakur in the United States since 1987, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1997, with 119 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2005, and the 1990s alone account for 34%.
By decade
In 1997, its biggest year
Shakur was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1997 were Michael, Jacob, Matthew, Christopher and Joshua. See all of 1997.
Names that rose and fell with Shakur
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Khaleelpeak 1999
- Quadepeak 2024
- Derianpeak 1996
- Stonepeak 1999
- Dangelopeak 1996
- Romariopeak 1994
- Khalilpeak 2020
- Romellopeak 1995
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.