Shaquille
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #4,846 · #2,884 for boys in 2025, 43 births
Given to boys 93.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 1,785 births
- Debut · boys
- 14 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,769since 1989
Shaquille over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,884 | 43 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,896 | 28 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,883 | 28 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,533 | 32 | |
| 2021 | — | #2,819 | 44 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,467 | 52 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,694 | 47 | |
| 2018 | — | #2,385 | 55 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,597 | 48 | |
| 2016 | — | #2,412 | 53 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,355 | 55 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,277 | 58 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,364 | 53 | |
| 2012 | — | #2,678 | 45 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,364 | 32 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,678 | 20 | |
| 2009 | — | #8,985 | 8 | |
| 2008 | — | #7,187 | 11 | |
| 2007 | — | #9,788 | 7 | |
| 2006 | — | #4,865 | 18 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,824 | 17 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,735 | 24 | |
| 2003 | — | #2,847 | 34 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,022 | 30 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,306 | 43 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,875 | 56 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,300 | 39 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,585 | 66 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,224 | 96 | |
| 1996 | — | #662 | 250 | |
| 1995 | #4,846 | 20 | #457 | 494 |
| 1994 | #2,026 | 69 | #234 | 1,270 |
| 1993 | #1,325 | 126 | #181 | 1,785 |
| 1992 | #1,740 | 85 | #426 | 523 |
| 1991 | #2,420 | 52 | #719 | 199 |
| 1990 | #3,156 | 35 | #1,117 | 92 |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Shaquille! It came in at #3,809, and was given to 14 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2007, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Shaquille is popular in 1997
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#520 · 1 in 4,036
- Louisiana#615 · 1 in 4,478
- New York#656 · 1 in 6,759
- North Carolina#657 · 1 in 6,715
- Pennsylvania#786 · 1 in 10,999
Best ever in a state: #51 in South Carolina, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #520 | 5 | 1 in 4,036 |
| Louisiana | #615 | 6 | 1 in 4,478 |
| New York | #656 | 17 | 1 in 6,759 |
| North Carolina | #657 | 7 | 1 in 6,715 |
| Pennsylvania | #786 | 6 | 1 in 10,999 |
| New Jersey | #814 | 5 | 1 in 9,618 |
| Illinois | #822 | 8 | 1 in 9,956 |
| Georgia | #826 | 6 | 1 in 8,364 |
| Texas | #1,223 | 8 | 1 in 19,633 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Shaquille
- 1,012 spots since 2024 (#3,896 → #2,884)
- 417 spots since 2020 (#2,467 → #2,884)
- 529 spots since 2015 (#2,355 → #2,884)
- Biggest jump: 398 spots in 1991 (#1,117 → #719)
- Biggest drop: 562 spots in 1997 (#662 → #1,224)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 1993 at #181 (1,785 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1991–1996
- Highest: 1 in 1,099 boys born in 1993 were named Shaquille (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 39,723 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 83.4% of all boys named Shaquille (4,814) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 14 | #3,809 (1989) | #3,809 |
| 1990s | 4,814 | #181 (1993) | #891 |
| 2000s | 248 | #1,875 (2000) | #4,943 |
| 2010s | 466 | #2,277 (2014) | #2,780 |
| 2020s | 227 | #2,467 (2020) | #3,247 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Shaquille in 1997
Top boys' names in 1997
More about 1997
boys
1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 19,637 of them was named Shaquille, which outranked 88.7% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).