Shekinah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A visible or otherwise perceptible manifestation of the presence of God
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 24 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ʃekina/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Shekinah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 75K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 84K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 120Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 212 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A visible or otherwise perceptible manifestation of the presence of God
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shekinah 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Shekinah | 29 |
| US United States | 1,816 | 1 in 183K | 1.8K | Shekinah | 212 |
| PH Philippines | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 84K | — | Shekinah | 51 |
| IN India | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 5.9M | — | Shekinah | 24 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 548K | — | Shekinah | 10 |
| GY Guyana | 10 | 1 in 75K | 10 | — | 3 |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
| BB Barbados | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 127K | 1 | — | 10 |
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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the bb-ebc-voter-slices-2025 register. 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)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.8K | #8,091 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42 | #8,091 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 22 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 10 | #584 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BB Barbados | Barbados — Electoral register, overseas-voters slice | 2025 | 1 | #27 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Shekinah a male or female name?
- Shekinah is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- What does the name Shekinah mean, and where does it come from?
- A visible or otherwise perceptible manifestation of the presence of God Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shekinah?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /ʃekina/; in Swahili /ʃekinah/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Shekinah have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Shekinah in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shekinah.
- Where is Shekinah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shekinah is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 75 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shekinah?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,816 people named Shekinah in 2020, about 1 in 183 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shekinahThe 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, “Shekinah”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.