Shahil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shahil has been given to 74 babies in the U.S. since 1993. 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 2000, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Shahil, 2004
1 in 478,000
Shahil 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shahil?
Shahil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2004
- 1 in 478,000
- 8 of 3,820,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 248,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2004
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 330,995 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shahil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2004 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 330,995 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shahil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shahils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shahil was born before 1999 — so the typical Shahil is around 26 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 74
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (38).
Is Shahil 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 2000 (11)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.5% average annual change
Spellings of Shahil
Shahil is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 57.2% against Shahil's 0.17%.
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.
Shahil around the world
Where Shahil 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.
- England & Wales1998–2014#4,632in 2014
- Canada2005–2005#2,048in 2005
- South Australia2002–2002#606in 2002
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shahil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shahil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shahil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.