Shaquel
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaquel has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1987. 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 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 52% girls, 48% boys all-time.
Babies named Shaquel, 1995
1 in 523,000
Shaquel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shaquel over time
In 2000, Shaquel 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 Shaquel?
Shaquel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1995, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1995
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,660,254 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1995
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,443 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaquel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1995 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,443 children born in 1995 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaquels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquel was born before 1992 — so the typical Shaquel is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 83.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 78
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 83.3% of all recorded uses (65).
Is Shaquel 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 (18)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 53.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shaquel
Shaquel is not the most common spelling — Raquel is, with 74.3% against Shaquel's 0.11%.
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 Shaquel is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Shaquel was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,220,640 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. Shaquel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaquel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shaquel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaquel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.