Shamel
Shamel is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 199342 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1974
- 1,175people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,020 boys have been named Shamel in the United States since 1974, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 42 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 42 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1993, and the 1990s alone account for 31%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 155 girls have also been given it, 13% of the total.
By decade
In 1993, its biggest year
Shamel was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1993 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1993.
Names that rose and fell with Shamel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Joshuapeak 1989
- Justenpeak 1990
- Terellpeak 1994
- Brandonpeak 1992
- Tavarispeak 1995
- Nickolauspeak 1990
- Rashonpeak 1994
- Jashuapeak 1987
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.