Shaquil
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shaquil has been given to 213 babies in the U.S. since 1990. 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 76 recorded.
Babies named Shaquil, 2001
1 in 748,000
Shaquil 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shaquil?
Shaquil had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 388,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shaquil sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shaquil. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shaquils were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shaquil was born before 1993 — so the typical Shaquil is around 32 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 97.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 206
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 97.6% of all recorded uses (201).
Is Shaquil 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 (76)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 81.7% average annual change
Spellings of Shaquil
Shaquil is not the most common spelling — Shaquille is, with 65.3% against Shaquil's 2.3%.
Where Shaquil is used
Across 1910–2025, Shaquil was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,044,642 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2New Jersey1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Texas1 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. Shaquil has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shaquil around the world
Where Shaquil 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 & Wales1997–1998#2,901in 1998
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shaquil by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shaquil
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shaquil
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.