Shekina
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃɛkinə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shekina is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.3M(measured from records)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 25K
- CMCameroon≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 25K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shekina counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Shekina | 6 |
| CM Cameroon | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Shekina | 5 |
| KE Kenya | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 187K | — | Shekina | 7 |
| US United States | 266 | 1 in 1.3M | 256 | Shekina | 109 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 989K | — | Shekina | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 425K | — | Shekina | 6 |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 256 | #31,941 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1976 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 13 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 10 | #31,941 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2010 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1975 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 7 | — |
Reference works 1
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shekina?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃɛkinə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shekina a male or female name?
- Shekina is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Shekina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Shekina in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shekina.
- How common is the name Shekina?
- In the United States, the national register counted 266 people named Shekina in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shekinaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shekina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.