Shamel — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shamel

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,020 babies named Shamel between 1974 and 2023, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shamel currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Shamel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 155 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamel performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 317 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shamel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 706 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Shamel in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamel 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 1,020 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.