Shekinah
Shekinah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 2000109 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1976
- 2,124people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,124 girls have been named Shekinah in the United States since 1976, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2000, with 109 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2001, and the 2000s alone account for 34%.
By decade
In 2000, its biggest year
Shekinah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2000 were Emily, Hannah, Madison, Ashley and Sarah. See all of 2000.
Names that rose and fell with Shekinah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Noemypeak 2001
- Gabrielapeak 2003
- Elyssapeak 2004
- Marielapeak 1992
- Asyapeak 2001
- Emileepeak 2003
- Maricarmenpeak 2000
- Rianapeak 2000
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.