Shaked
A Hebrew name meaning "almond", carried by fewer than 120 people in Poland: most here have never met one. It sits with the truly unisex names, given to women and men in nearly even numbers.
Shaked Pronunciation
What Shaked means
Where Shaked comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Shaked comes from Hebrew. The word שקד means almond, and the almond tree is the first to flower in the Israeli winter, ahead of everything around it.
Jewish tradition turned the word into a small riddle. In the book of Jeremiah, the prophet sees an almond branch, a shaked, and God replies that he is shoked, watching over his word. Name and verb sit one letter apart. That pun is why the almond became a sign of alertness and early promise.
As a given name, Shaked belongs mostly to modern Israel, where it is given to girls and boys alike. It has no diminutives and no variant spellings. The name is the noun itself, unchanged.
On a Polish class register it would stand out at once, one Shaked among the Zuzannas and Antonis. A teacher might pause over it. The pause is worth a short answer: the name means almond.
How many people are named Shaked
1 in 289024 women in Poland is named Shaked. 119 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3099 among female names.
Shaked's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Shaked as a middle name
Shaked is a first name for 119 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5244th, between Shaina (3) and Shana (3).
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#5242 Sevgi̇3
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#5243 Shaina3
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#5244 Shaked3
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#5245 Shana3
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#5246 Shanika3