Shamell
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shamell has been given to 193 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1989, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 66% boys, 34% girls all-time.
Babies named Shamell, 2012
1 in 732,000
Shamell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shamell over time
In 2012, Shamell went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shamell?
Shamell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2012
- 1 in 732,000
- 5 of 3,657,590 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 379,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2012
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 507,051 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shamell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamell was born before 1991 — so the typical Shamell is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 42.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 128
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 42.2% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Shamell 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 1989 (12)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shamell
Shamell is not the most common spelling — Jamell is, with 44.6% against Shamell's 2.6%.
Where Shamell is used
Across 1910–2025, Shamell was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 222,064 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. Shamell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shamell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shamell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shamell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.