Shamel
Shamel was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,175 Americans have been recorded with it between 1974 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,130 Americans named Shamel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,862, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1993, the peak
Shamel peaked in 1993, when 57 babies were given it (42 boys, #1,958 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #13,862 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 7 | #10,602 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 7 | #10,562 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 8 | #9,545 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 11 | #7,522 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 13 | #6,612 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,465 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,353 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,964 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 14 | #6,193 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | under 5 | 15 | #5,987 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 17 | #5,511 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 13 | #6,699 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 19 | #4,951 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 19 | #4,824 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 20 | #4,430 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 23 | #3,975 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 22 | #3,952 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 14 | #5,343 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 24 | #3,596 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 26 | #3,279 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 22 | #3,567 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 21 | #3,574 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 30 | #2,667 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,181 | 25 | #3,003 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 33 | #2,387 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,326 | 31 | #2,484 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,191 | 42 | #1,958 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,584 | 41 | #1,972 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,071 | 36 | #2,084 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,814 | 36 | #2,073 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,502 | 38 | #1,944 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,475 | 30 | #2,123 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,862 | 35 | #1,859 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,629 | 26 | #2,215 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 37 | #1,693 | |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,822 | 33 | #1,758 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,795 | 25 | #2,134 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,353 | 30 | #1,880 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,277 | 15 | #3,003 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,281 | 28 | #2,000 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,812 | 24 | #2,144 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 23 | #2,117 | |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,604 | 17 | #2,644 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,570 | 10 | #3,675 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,278 | 10 | #3,624 |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,878 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shamel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,175 Americans recorded as Shamel, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shamel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamel, and how old are they?
1,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,175 Americans ever recorded as Shamel. The median Shamel alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 909 people named Shamel (178 women and girls, 731 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 146 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 599 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 305 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 78 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Shamel born?
The states with the most babies named Shamel are New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 722 | not ranked | 9.1× |
| North Carolina | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shamel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shamel is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 9.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shamel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,593 babies since 1880, Shamel is the most given (74% of them).
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 Shamel
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 Shamel and names like it
- Compare Shamel and ShamellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamel peaked in 1993.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamel since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Shamel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.