Shaquille

girls:

387 births since 1990

#5329 (7th percentile)

boys:

5.7k births since 1989

#1569 (66th percentile)

overall:

6.1k births since 1989

#3475 (55th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaquille".

1989 2023 19892023

Key Statistics

Total Births
387
Peak Births
126
Peak Year
1993
First Recorded
1990
Peak Percentile
14.0%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#744
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
5,698
Peak Births
1,785
Peak Year
1993
First Recorded
1989
Peak Percentile
76.7%
Current Percentile
2.5%
Peak Rank
#180
Current Rank
#888
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Shaquille

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shaquille. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 86.0% confident that Shaquille is pronounced as shuh-KEEL. The next most likely pronunciation is shuhk-WEEL, at 14.0% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Shaquille. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Shaquille, please vote using the thumbs up button.

shah-KEEL (2 syllables)
10 names 621 births
SH AA0 K IY1 L
shuh-KEHL (2 syllables)
5 names 441 births
SH AH0 K EH1 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like SH AH0 K IY1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.