Shamell — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shamell

The Social Security Administration has registered 128 babies named Shamell between 1979 and 2012, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shamell currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Shamell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 65 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamell performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 54 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shamell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 60 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shamell in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamell 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 128 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.