Given name & surname
Shamil
“complete, comprehensive”
Shamil is a masculine given name from Arabic, meaning “complete, comprehensive.”
Meaning & origin
How it developed
From Arabic شَامِل (“complete, comprehensive”); its root is Arabic ش م ل.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Shamil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 53
- 38 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1999. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1996. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 395 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Shamil’s family of names
Shamil may belong to the same name family as SHAMILL. This is a tentative spelling connection.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Shamil
- Imam ShamilNorth Caucasian imam and warrior (1797-1871)
- Shamil BasayevChechen militant Islamist leader (1965-2006)
- Shamil BorchashviliAustrian judokaborn 1995
- Shamil Sabirovboxerborn 1959
- Shamil SerikovKazakh Olympic wrestler (1956–1989)
- Shamil KhisamutdinovRussian wrestlerborn 1950
- Shamil TarpishchevRussian tennis coach and retired tennis playerborn 1948
- Shamil AsildarovRussian footballer of Avar ethnicityborn 1983
- Shamil LakhiyalovRussian footballerborn 1979
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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