Shakil
given name · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Handsome’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Shakil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 86th most common given name.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 739(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.5Kas Shakeel
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 5.7Kas Shakeel
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 Shakil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 200 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 739 (inferred from the name graph)
≈220,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bangladesh, 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 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)
‘Handsome’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shakil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #86 | ≈220,000 est. | ≈1 in 739 | listed | Shakil | 98 |
| PK Pakistan | #48 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | 3 | Shakeel | 118 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | #150 | ≈6,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | listed | Shakeel | 57 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 270K | — | Shakil | 7 |
| US United States | — | 4,439as Shaquille | 1 in 75K | 4.2K | Shakeel | 200 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #628 | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Shakil | 42 |
| BH Bahrain | #272 | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | 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: 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shakil is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
pretty; handsome
as a nameMuslim baby names (our 2,000 meaningful and beautiful names for boys and girls) English-Urdu with Roman
In Arabic, well formed, handsome, comely, well-shaped
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Kazi Hasinur Rahman Shakilb. 1960BDbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 420 | #53,213 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 277 | #70,645 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 134 | #119,644 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 19 | #26,592 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 1 | #624 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Shakil mean, and where does it come from?
- ‘Handsome’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Shakil a male or female name?
- Shakil 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.
- What are other forms of the name Shakil?
- In the etymology graph, Shakeel and Shaquille are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Shakil have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 220 thousand people named Shakil in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shakil.
- How common is the name Shakil?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 36 people named Shakil, about 1 in 283 thousand residents.
- How common is Shakil compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Shakil is the 86th most common given name of 29,323 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shakil?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shakilThe 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, “Shakil” — the 86th most common given name in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.