Given name & surname · also Nepali
Shakya
“to be able”
Shakya is a surname, probably from Nepali, ultimately from Sanskrit.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Shakya probably goes back to Sanskrit शक्, meaning “to be able.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Shakya probably comes from Nepali, and ultimately from Sanskrit.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Probably from Nepali शाक्य, from Sanskrit शाक्य, from Sanskrit शक् (“to be able”), from Sanskrit शाखा (“branch, teak”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shakya through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 179
- 0 boys · 179 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 9 in 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 21 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 190 as a first name in 2020; 1,183 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shakya’s family of names
Shakya may belong to the same name family as SHAKKYA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
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