Shaka is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
Recently, the name Shaka has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Shaka. That means that a boy named Shaka is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Shaka.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Shaka. Boys named Shaka have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,211 Shaka ranked higher than ever before in 1977. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Shaka has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2018. In general, parents name their sons Shaka only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shaka was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Shaka continues to be a precious jewel: 15 newborns were named Shaka that year, ranking #5,043 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Shaka, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
Meeting a man or boy named Shaka is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Shaka can be found in only two: California and New York. No other state currently has residents named Shaka. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Shaka living in one state or another. (If your name is Shaka and you live outside of California or New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Shaka is in New York, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in New York, only 0.00074% of all male residents are called Shaka – that’s just one in 134,380! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 130 men going by that name. So, if your name is Shaka, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Shaka is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Shaka and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Shaka, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Koala
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shaka
Shaka
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
K
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
S
H
A
K
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Shaka sounds like this:
