# Shamil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/shamil/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | “complete”, “comprehensive” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 53 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 38 / 15 (28% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 40, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شَامِل (šāmil, “complete, comprehensive”).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 5 | 11,569 |
| 1984 | 5 | 11,819 |
| 1993 | 5 | 15,346 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | 7,952 |
| 1992 | 7 | 7,276 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,535 |
| 1996 | 9 | 6,403 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,460 |
| 1999 | 5 | 11,338 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | 2,020 |
| 1999 | 5 | 2,097 |
| 2002 | 6 | 2,005 |
| 2004 | 4 | 3,009 |
| 2005 | 4 | 3,208 |
| 2006 | 3 | 4,052 |
| 2007 | 3 | 4,333 |
| 2011 | 4 | 3,830 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5,137 |

## People named Shamil

- Shamil Basayev, Chechen militant Islamist leader (1965-2006)
- Shamil Sabirov, boxer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.