girls:
155 births since 1975
#5561 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1974
#3573 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1974
#6565 (15th percentile)
The name Shamel is the #6,565 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,175 recorded births since 1974. This represents the 15.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,573 (22.0% percentile) for all time with 1,020 births since 1974. For girls, it ranks #5,561 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 155 births since 1975.
Shamel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1974 (1974 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Shamel is available in 47 out of the 50 years between 1974 and 2023 (47 years for boys and 19 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Shamel has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Shamel were boys.
For boys, Shamel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 4.9% percentile (ranked #720) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2007, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shamel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shamel reached its peak popularity in 1977, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #758) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shamel".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shamel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.4% confident that Shamel is pronounced as shuh-MEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SHA-muhl, at 21.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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