Shakeria
Meaning of Shakeria
Shakeria, a feminine given name primarily attested in the United States, constitutes a morphological elaboration of the Arabic-derived Shakira— itself the feminine form of Shakir, meaning “thankful”—through the affixation of the Latinate suffix -ia, which imparts a classical resonance. Phonologically rendered as /ʃəˈkɪəriə/, the name features a medial stressed syllable and a distinctive diphthongal sequence /ɪəri/ that differentiates it from its progenitor. Sociolinguistic data indicate that Shakeria enjoyed modest adoption from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s, achieving its most favorable rank (754) in 1978 and a peak absolute frequency of 75 registrations in 1995, before undergoing a gradual decline to just five recorded births (rank 937) by 2012. In this light, Shakeria exemplifies an intersection of Arabic lexical heritage and Anglo-American naming morphology, evoking connotations of gratitude and cultural hybridity and occasionally eliciting associative links to the global artistic profile of singer Shakira.
Pronunciation
American English
- Pronunced as shuh-KEER-ee-uh (/ʃəˈkɪəriə/)
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