Shail
Shail was last recorded in 2016, when 10 babies were given it; 74 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shail?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,065, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2016, the peak
Shail peaked in 2016, when 10 boys were given it, #8,065 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 10 | #8,065 | 5.3 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,919 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #12,038 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,677 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,160 | 2.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,889 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 5 | #14,052 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,476 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #13,032 | 2.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #10,000 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 7 | #7,046 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shail has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shail, and how old are they?
An estimated 73 Americans named Shail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 377 people named Shail (98 women and girls, 279 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 73 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.2 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 878 babies since 1880, Shail is the third most given (8.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 24 babies recorded by SSA was a Shail (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shail
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shail and names like it
- Compare Shail and ShaulBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sShail peaked in 2016.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Shail.
- Names starting with SMost given first.