Shaquiel
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaquiel has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Shaquiel, 1996
1 in 456,000
Shaquiel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shaquiel over time
In 1996, Shaquiel 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 Shaquiel?
Shaquiel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1996, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1996
- 1 in 456,000
- 8 of 3,646,048 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 237,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1996
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 315,907 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaquiel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1996 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 315,907 children born in 1996 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaquiels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquiel was born before 1993 — so the typical Shaquiel 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
- 51
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (51).
Is Shaquiel 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
- —
- 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 (24)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 210.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shaquiel
Shaquiel is not the most common spelling — Shaquille is, with 99.1% against Shaquiel's 0.88%.
- Shaquille99.1%5,769
- Shaquiel0.88%51
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.
Shaquiel around the world
Where Shaquiel 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 & Wales1997–2006#4,052in 2006
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shaquiel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shaquiel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaquiel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.