Shmiel
Shmiel was given to 63 boys in 2025, #2,249 among boys’ names; 956 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shmiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shmiel?
#2,249 among boys’ names, 2025
Shmiel rose from #2,757 in 2015 to #2,249 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 36.9 per million.
63 babies in 2025, the peak
Shmiel peaked in 2025, when 63 boys were given it, #2,249 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 45 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,249 | 36.9 |
| 2024 | 45 | #2,865 | 26.1 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,474 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 45 | #2,863 | 25.8 |
| 2021 | 43 | #2,908 | 24.6 |
| 2020 | 45 | #2,749 | 26.1 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,092 | 21.7 |
| 2018 | 31 | #3,590 | 17.1 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,300 | 18.9 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,762 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,757 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,026 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 31 | #3,482 | 16.4 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,350 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,195 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 29 | #3,694 | 15.1 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,035 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,446 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 25 | #4,100 | 12.0 |
| 2006 | 18 | #5,035 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,035 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,239 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,494 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,454 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,821 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,175 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,597 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,380 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 10 | #6,015 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,311 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,717 | 3.2 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,943 | 6.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,439 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,737 | 4.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,208 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,523 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,795 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shmiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shmiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shmiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shmiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 941 Americans named Shmiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 553 people named Shmiel (7 women and girls, 546 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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.
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 Shmiel born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 588 | not ranked | 10.0× |
Where Shmiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shmiel is most over-represented in New York: since 1959 it was given 10.0 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 Shmiel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shmiel
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 Shmiel and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Shmiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Shmiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
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