Shamaine — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shamaine

The Social Security Administration has registered 197 babies named Shamaine between 1970 and 1998, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shamaine currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1998. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 12 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamaine performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 79 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shamaine shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shamaine in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamaine 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 197 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.