Shael
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women· registers list it under both sexes; no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/sael/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Shael is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- CACanada≈1 in 650Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay≈1 in 900K
- CLChile≈1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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)
- Record sources
- 103 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 653K (inferred from the name graph)
≈470 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shal in IN India.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shael 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 | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 1.2K | Shal | 16 |
| US United States | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 115 | Shael | 103 |
| CA Canada | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 653K | 5 | Shael | 42 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Shael | 6 |
| PH Philippines | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 3.6M | — | Shael | 9 |
| AU Australia | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 1 | Shael | 26 |
| CL Chile | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 1 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 903K | 1 | — | — |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; the ca-statcan-baby-names register; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021). 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 100 | #44,702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 54 | #44,702 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2012 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2013 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 5 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2019 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2017 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Shael?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /sael/; in Swahili /ʃael/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Shael a male or female name?
- Shael is used for both men and women. National registers that list it by sex count it under both: United States (Census Bureau, 2020). We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Shael have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 471 people named Shael in India, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shal.
- How common is the name Shael?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154 people named Shael in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Shael?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shaelThe 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, “Shael”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.