Meaning not yet researched.
Shaquille: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 43 in 2025. Its best rank was #181 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #181 in 1993; #2,927 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Shaquille in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,927 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #181.
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Shaquille: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 43 boys in 2025. Peak: #181 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 1,785 (1993).
In 2025, 43 US boys were named Shaquille, making it the 2,927th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,038 places from #3,965 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 28 boys named Shaquille in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #181, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,785. For comparison, it was #2,382 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Shaquille in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 14 babies. In all, 6,156 US babies have been given the name, 6.3% of them girls and 94% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 5,201 babies named Shaquille.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 430 US boys were named Shaquille; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,723 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Shaquille ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,802 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Shaquil, Shaquill and Shaquile are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Shaquil (213), Shaquill (172), Shaquile (127), Shaquelle (118), Shaquell (89), Shaquiel (56), Shaquielle (38), Shaqille (16), Shacquille (6), Shaqulle (6), Shaquale (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Shaquille in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #1,802 | #1,910 |
| New York | 5 | #1,999 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 43 | #2,927 |
| 2024 | — | — | 28 | #3,965 |
| 2023 | — | — | 28 | #3,982 |
| 2022 | — | — | 32 | #3,601 |
| 2021 | — | — | 44 | #2,853 |
| 2020 | — | — | 52 | #2,495 |
| 2019 | — | — | 47 | #2,728 |
| 2018 | — | — | 55 | #2,412 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,629 |
| 2016 | — | — | 53 | #2,431 |
| 2015 | — | — | 55 | #2,382 |
| 2014 | — | — | 58 | #2,292 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,394 |
| 2012 | — | — | 45 | #2,708 |
| 2011 | — | — | 32 | #3,420 |
| 2010 | — | — | 20 | #4,819 |
| 2009 | — | — | 8 | #9,720 |
| 2008 | — | — | 11 | #7,619 |
| 2007 | — | — | 7 | #10,719 |
| 2006 | — | — | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #4,999 |
| 2004 | — | — | 24 | #3,838 |
| 2003 | — | — | 34 | #2,917 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,081 |
| 2001 | — | — | 43 | #2,339 |
| 2000 | — | — | 56 | #1,891 |
| 1999 | — | — | 39 | #2,338 |
| 1998 | — | — | 66 | #1,599 |
| 1997 | — | — | 96 | #1,226 |
| 1996 | — | — | 250 | #663 |
| 1995 | 20 | #4,991 | 494 | #457 |
| 1994 | 69 | #2,043 | 1,270 | #234 |
| 1993 | 126 | #1,334 | 1,785 | #181 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,751 | 523 | #426 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,444 | 199 | #719 |
| 1990 | 35 | #3,215 | 92 | #1,127 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,993 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).