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)
The name Shaquille is the #3,475 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,085 recorded births since 1989. This represents the 55.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 55.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,569 (65.8% percentile) for all time with 5,698 births since 1989. For girls, it ranks #5,329 (6.7% percentile) for all time with 387 births since 1990.
Shaquille first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1989 (1989 for boys and 1990 for girls).
The name Shaquille has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Shaquille reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 76.7% percentile (ranked #180) with 864 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 864 births per million (ranked 76.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Shaquille ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 1.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Shaquille reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #744) with 64 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 64 births per million (ranked 14.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Shaquille".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Shaquille. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.0% confident that Shaquille is pronounced as shuh-KEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is shuhk-WEEL, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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