How Many People Are Named Shaquille?
people named Shaquille are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 57,240 people in the US has this name
Based on 6,156 babies named Shaquille in Social Security records from 1989 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
1,911 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of SHAKIL. This name is borne by basketball player Shaquille O'Neal (1972-).
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
Of the babies given the name Shaquille, 6.4% were girls and 93.7% were boys. The share has stayed close to this since the 1990s: 7.4% of the babies were girls then and 0% in the 2020s.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Shaquille alive today is about 28 years old, and 77% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 30 and 32 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Shaquille first appears in the records in 1989 and was given most often in 1993, to 1,911 babies. In 2025, 43 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1989 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Shaquille has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #181, in 1993. In 2025 it ranked #2,926.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,926 |
| Best rank | #181 (1993) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #462 in the 1990s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Shaquille alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Shaquille were born in New York than in any other state: about 758 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Shaquille was given 4.6 times as often in South Carolina, 4 times in Mississippi and 2.4 times in Georgia.
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