Shaquille
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #4,846 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 93.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 1,785 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,769since 1989
Shaquille over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,883 | 28 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,533 | 32 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,819 | 44 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,467 | 52 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,694 | 47 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,385 | 55 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,597 | 48 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,412 | 53 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,355 | 55 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,277 | 58 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,364 | 53 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,678 | 45 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,364 | 32 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,678 | 20 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,985 | 8 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,865 | 18 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,824 | 17 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,847 | 34 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,022 | 30 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,306 | 43 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,875 | 56 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,300 | 39 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,585 | 66 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,224 | 96 | |
| 1996 | — | #662 | 250 | |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | #457 | 494 |
| 1994 | #2,026 | 69 | #234 | 1,270 |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 | #181 | 1,785 |
| 1992 | #1,740 | 85 | #426 | 523 |
| 1991 | #2,420 | 52 | #719 | 199 |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 | #1,117 | 92 |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shaquille! It came in at #3,809, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
See more about Shaquille
- 1,012 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #2,884)
- 417 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,884)
- 529 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #2,884)
- Biggest jump: 398 spots in 1991 (#1,117 → #719)
- Biggest drop: 562 spots in 1997 (#662 → #1,224)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 1993 at #181 (1,785 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1991–1996
- Highest: 1 in 1,099 boys born in 1993 were named Shaquille (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 83.4% of all boys named Shaquille (4,814) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 14 | #3,809 (1989) | #3,809 |
| 1990s | 4,814 | #181 (1993) | #891 |
| 2000s | 248 | #1,875 (2000) | #4,943 |
| 2010s | 466 | #2,277 (2014) | #2,780 |
| 2020s | 227 | #2,467 (2020) | #3,247 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shaquille in 1992
Top girls' names in 1992
Top boys' names in 1992
More about 1992
girls
1,843,931 girls got a published name in 1992; 1 in 21,693 of them was named Shaquille, which outranked 88.9% of the 15,610 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,730Mirella86
- #1,730Natashia86
- #1,730Samone86
- #1,740Shaquille85
- #1,740Adela85
- #1,740Alexi85
- #1,740Antonette85
- #1,755Abril84
- #1,755Jaci84
- #1,755Minerva84
Tied with 14 names at #1,740; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,409 boys got a published name in 1992; 1 in 3,819 of them was named Shaquille, which outranked 95.7% of the 9,820 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.