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Shakil

Boys' name

Handsome

Shakil has been given to 177 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 34 recorded.

Babies named Shakil, 2015

1 in 740,000

Shakil over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shakil: meaning, origin, and history

Handsome

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shakil means

Shakil means “handsome”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shakil is used in Arabic.

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 172 boys were recorded with the name Shakil between 1982 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 34 in 1993; its best national rank was #2,281 in 1993.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Shakil between 1993 and 1993. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1993; its best national rank was #15,331 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 Shakil?

Shakil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among boys only
1 in 383,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shakil 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shakil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shakils were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shakil was born before 1994 — so the typical Shakil is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
75.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
172
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Choose a decade

1990s — 75.6% of all recorded uses (130).

Is Shakil 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
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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 (34)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,281
1993

Spellings of Shakil

Shakil is not the most common spelling — Khalil is, with 52.7% against Shakil's 0.36%.

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 Shakil is used

Across 1910–2025, Shakil was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,290,549 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Shakil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shakil around the world

Where Shakil 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
    1996–2020
    #4,608
    in 2020
  • France
    2002–2025
    #6,399
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Shakil 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
#2,281
1993
Peak year
1993
34 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
172
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,331
1993
Peak year
1993
5 that year
First recorded
1993
Last recorded
1993
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shakil

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

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Sibling names for Shakil

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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