Shàkil
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shàkil is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. In Pakistan it is the 48th most common given name. Recorded meaning: well formed, handsome, comely, well-shaped. Shàkil is also written শাকিল in Bengali.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- INIndia≈1 in 5.7K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 41Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Shàkil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bangladesh, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Shàkil in other scripts: Bengali
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shakil in IN India, BD Bangladesh, AE United Arab Emirates and 2 more and Shakeel in PK Pakistan, US United States, SA Saudi Arabia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)well formed, handsome, comely, well-shaped
Cited for this meaning 4
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
- Nordic Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shàkil counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #638 | ≈250,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 2.3K | Shakil | 128 |
| BD Bangladesh | #86 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Shakil | 98 |
| PK Pakistan | #48 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 3 | Shakeel | 118 |
| US United States | — | 4,439as Shaquille | 1 in 75K | 4.2K | Shakeel | 200 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #150 | ≈3,800 est. | ≈1 in 9.4K | listed | Shakeel | 57 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #628 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Shakil | 42 |
| BH Bahrain | #272 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Shakil | 6 |
| GY Guyana | — | 278as Shaquille | 1 in 2.7K | 278 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 36 | 1 in 283K | 58 | Shakil | 7 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shàkil mean, and where does it come from?
- well formed, handsome, comely, well-shaped Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Muslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman and 2 other sources.
- Is Shàkil a male or female name?
- Shàkil is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Shàkil?
- Mondonomo estimates about 254 thousand people named Shàkil in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shakil. After it come Bangladesh, Pakistan, United States and Saudi Arabia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Shàkil?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 36 people named Shàkil, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Shàkil compared with other names?
- In India, Shàkil is the 638th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sh%C3%A0kilThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Shàkil” — ranked 2820th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.