Shaquille
Shaquille is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 28 births. Its best rank was 181st, in 1993.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 280.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19931,785 births
- Best rank
- #181in 1993
- Since 1989
- 6,113people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,726 boys have been named Shaquille in the United States since 1989, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1993, with 1,785 births.
The name has all but left use: 28 births in 2024, against 1,785 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1994, and the 1990s alone account for 84%. It has spent 6 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 387 girls have also been given it, 6.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1993, its biggest year
Shaquille was the 181st most given boy’s name 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 Shaquille
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tevinpeak 1992
- Kadeempeak 1991
- Denzellpeak 1992
- Malepeak 1991
- Khirypeak 1990
- Devantepeak 1992
- Keenenpeak 1991
- Keiferpeak 1991
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.