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Shakeel

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Shakil

Shakeel has been given to 218 babies in the U.S. since 1982. 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 45 recorded.

Babies named Shakeel, 2019

1 in 579,000

Shakeel over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shakeel: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Shakil

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shakeel means

Shakeel is a alternate transcription of Shakil.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shakeel is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃa.ˈkiːl/ for Shakeel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Shakeel → Shakil. The family’s meaning is “handsome”, recorded in the naming reference for Shakil.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shakil.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 218 boys were recorded with the name Shakeel between 1982 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 45 in 1993; its best national rank was #1,862 in 1993.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shakeel?

Shakeel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shakeel sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakeel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shakeels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakeel was born before 1993 — so the typical Shakeel is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
78.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
34.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
218
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Choose a decade

1990s — 78.4% of all recorded uses (171).

Is Shakeel 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (45)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
58.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,862
1993

Spellings of Shakeel

Shakeel is not the most common spelling — Hakeem is, with 47.4% against Shakeel's 1.6%.

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.

Where Shakeel is used

Across 1910–2025, Shakeel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 603,069 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New 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. Shakeel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shakeel around the world

Where Shakeel 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1983–1983
    #276
    in 1983
  • Canada
    1994–2004
    #2,269
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #538
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shakeel by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,862
1993
Peak year
1993
45 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
218
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shakeel

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ShahzadSharbelSharvilShaddaiSharvinShaheerShahzaibShahzainShahramShaaravShaheenShailenShammahShakaiShahanShahinShahmeerShahirShalevShahbazShaheemShaheimShayaanShazain

Sibling names for Shakeel

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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