Shakeal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shakeal has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 1993, with 22 recorded.
Babies named Shakeal, 1994
1 in 619,000
Shakeal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Shakeal?
Shakeal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1994, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1994
- 1 in 619,000
- 6 of 3,715,972 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 322,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1994
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 429,287 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shakeal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1994 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 429,287 children born in 1994 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakeal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shakeals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakeal was born before 1993 — so the typical Shakeal is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 45
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (45).
Is Shakeal 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
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- 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 1993 (22)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 85.4% average annual change
Spellings of Shakeal
Shakeal is not the most common spelling — Shamel is, with 39.2% against Shakeal's 1.7%.
Where Shakeal is used
Across 1910–2025, Shakeal was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Shakeal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shakeal around the world
Where Shakeal 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 & Wales1996–1996#1,591in 1996
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shakeal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shakeal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shakeal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.