How rare is the name Shaquille?

4,439 people in the United States have the first name Shaquille, about 1 in 68,040. It ranks #4,285 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

SHAQUILLE

#4,285

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,439
About
1 in 68,040
This common or more
83.8%
Who bears it

Of the 4,439 people named Shaquille, 88.9% reported their origin as Black, 4.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.5% as two or more races. 94.1% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Shaquille peaked in 1993, when 1,911 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19892025
Peak year
1993
Births that year
1,911
In 2025*
43 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 6,156 babies have been given the name since 1989. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Shaquille by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #923. The largest share of babies named Shaquille, 81.4%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1980s#23,24614
1990s#9235,201
2000s#8,658248
2010s#5,929466
2020s#6,780227
Millennials 1981–9681.4%
Generation Z 1997–128.9%
2013 and later9.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Shaquille is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Shaquille has been most common in South Carolina (3.8×), Mississippi (2.7×), and Georgia (2.3×), and least common in Missouri (0.3×).

4,902 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Shaquille

1 other first name also has 4,439 people.

#4,285 Shani · 4,439

Either side of Shaquille

#4,281 Wilda · 4,440#4,285 Shani · 4,439#4,287 Melania · 4,437#4,288 Kat · 4,432

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Shaquille, most common first.

#22,829 Shaquilla · 433#28,745 Shaquila · 311#39,641 Shaquil · 190#45,015 Shaquile · 152#47,181 Shaquill · 139#48,840 Shaquelle · 129#50,640 Shaquella · 118#52,900 Shaquell · 104

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