Shaquille — #3928 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Shaquille

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,726 babies named Shaquille between 1989 and 2024, spanning 36 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shaquille currently holds the #3928 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 1,785 babies received it in a single year. Shaquille is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 387 additional births since 1990.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shaquille performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 4,814 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shaquille shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 758 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Shaquille in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shaquille 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 5,726 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.