Shakila is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Shakila 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 girl in 100,000 has been named Shakila. That means that a girl named Shakila is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her 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 Shakila.
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 Shakila. Girls named Shakila have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 1,757 Shakila ranked higher than ever before in 1992. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Shakila 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 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Shakila only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Shakila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Shakila in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 77 women and girls named Shakila, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 77 women and girls named Shakila live in no more than 8 different states, including for example California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey and New York. In all other 41 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Shakila. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Shakila lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Shakila and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Shakila relative to its female population is Virginia. And even there, only one in 345,323 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Shakila.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a very popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 9.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter A is more common for girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Shakila has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.
That means that if 9.3% of all girls' names start with an S, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the girls' names that start with an S, Susan is the most common.
If your name is Shakila 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 Shakila, you can simply say:
Sun
Hat
Apple
Koala
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Shakila
Shakila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
S
H
A
K
I
L
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
I
L
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. Shakila sounds like this:
