Sham — #7463 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sham

The Social Security Administration has registered 215 babies named Sham between 2001 and 2024, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sham currently holds the #7463 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Sham is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 36 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sham performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 142 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Sham shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Sham in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sham in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 215 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.