shaakira as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of shaakira

What is the meaning of the name shaakira ?

The baby name shaakira is a Female name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced /ʃaː.ki.ra/ (Arabic, approx. "SHAH-kee-rah") or /ʃəˈkiːrə/ (common English, approx. "shuh-KEER-uh").

shaakira is Arabic in Origin.

Shaakira is a feminine Arabic name, a transliteration of the Arabic Shakirah, the active-participle form of the root sh-k-r “to thank.” It denotes “thankful, grateful, one who shows appreciation.” As the feminine counterpart of Shakir, it belongs to a family of names built on the same root, which also yields common Arabic words like shukr (thanks) and mashkur (appreciated).

Use is well established in Arabic-speaking regions and in Muslim communities across North and East Africa and South Asia; the double-a spelling reflects the long a vowel. In English-language records the name rose in visibility from the 1990s due to the Colombian singer Shakira, encouraging broader adoption and variant spellings. Established variants include Shakira, Shakirah, and Shakera; less common transliterations show Shakira(h) with a marked long a. Related forms are the masculine Shakir and the abstract Shukriya/Shukriyyah (“gratitude”), though these are distinct names.