Shamal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shamal

The Social Security Administration has registered 172 babies named Shamal between 1978 and 2008, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shamal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1996, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 90 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shamal shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shamal in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 172 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.