Shael
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shael has been given to 36 babies in the U.S. since 2009. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2015, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Shael, 2024
1 in 669,000
Shael over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shael?
Shael had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shael sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shael was born before 2013 — so the typical Shael is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 58.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 36
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 58.3% of all recorded uses (21).
Is Shael rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2015 (8)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 0% average annual change
Spellings of Shael
Shael is not the most common spelling — Shawn is, with 34.4% against Shael's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Shael around the world
Where Shael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2025–2025#6,675in 2025
- Canada2012–2013#2,635in 2013
- South Australia1959–1959#464in 1959
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shael by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shael
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shael
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.