Shaquille
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A male given name from Arabic of modern American usage
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃəˈkiɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shaquille is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Suriname it is the 73rd most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 75K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 191K
- GYGuyana1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 266 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,439 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A male given name from Arabic of modern American usage.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shaquille 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 4,439 | 1 in 75K | 4.2K | Shaquille | 266 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 301K | listed | — | 2 |
| MZ Mozambique | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 52K | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 439 | 1 in 39K | 429 | Shaquille | 38 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 191K | listed | Shaquille | 93 |
| GY Guyana | #204 | 278 | 1 in 2.7K | 278 | Shaquille | 8 |
| JM Jamaica | #814 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Shaquille | 15 |
| SR Suriname | #73 | ≈96 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Shaquille | 6 |
4,439 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the id-github-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Shaquille O'Nealb. 1972USAmerican basketball player (born 1972)
- Andre Wisdomb. 1993GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1993)
- Shaquille Harrisonb. 1993USAmerican basketball player (born 1993)
- Raheem Sterlingb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player (born 1994)
- Rashawn Thomasb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Isaiah Taylorb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1994)
- Shaquille Doorsonb. 1994NLDutch basketball player (born 1994)
- Shaquille McDonaldb. 1995GBEnglish association football player
- Shaquille Pinasb. 1998NLSurinamese association football player
- Daniel Phillipsb. 2001GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football 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).
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.2K | #4,285 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 1.8K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 523 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 494 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 429 | #1,804 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 278 | #328 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 276 | #4,560 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 263 | #4,285 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1996 | 250 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 199 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 126 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Shaquille mean, and where does it come from?
- A male given name from Arabic of modern American usage. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Shaquille?
- In the etymology graph, Shakil and Shakeel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Shaquille?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃəˈkiɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Shaquille a male or female name?
- Shaquille 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.
- In which country does Shaquille have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 4.4 thousand people named Shaquille, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shaquille.
- Where is Shaquille most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shaquille is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shaquille?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,439 people named Shaquille in 2020, about 1 in 75 thousand residents.
- How common is Shaquille compared with other names?
- In Suriname, Shaquille is the 73rd most common given name of 94 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shaquille?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shaquilleThe 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, “Shaquille” — the 73rd most common given name in Suriname. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.