Shamel
Recorded 1974–2023 · United States
Shamel was most popular in 1993, when 57 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,745 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,175 people named Shamel.
Shamel over time
How old is the name Shamel?
Shamel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1974, which makes it about 51 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 47 of the 52 years since.
How many people are named Shamel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,175 American births named Shamel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,131 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Shamel in 2025?
Shamel was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Shamel getting more or less popular?
Shamel is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 13 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Shamel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Shamel is mostly a boy’s name — 13.2% of the 1,175 Americans given it were girls and 86.8% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Shamel?
Roughly 1,131 Americans named Shamel are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 34 years old, and half are between 25 and 41.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Shamel is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org