Shamar
Shamar was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,809 among boys’ names; 6,386 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,230 Americans named Shamar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shamar mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shamar is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shamar?
#5,809 among boys’ names, 2025
Shamar fell from #1,433 in 2015 to #5,809 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 62.6 to 9.4 per million.
389 babies in 2000, the peak
Shamar peaked in 2000, when 389 babies were given it (383 boys, #552 among boys’ names). The 16 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,809 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 36 | #3,323 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 42 | #2,993 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,264 | 0.04 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,296 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,063 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 85 | #1,812 | 0.05 |
| 2018 | 101 | #1,623 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 94 | #1,693 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 91 | #1,719 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 120 | #1,433 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,575 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 124 | #1,368 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,263 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 146 | #1,208 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,030 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 161 | #1,140 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 219 | #929 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 209 | #948 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 254 | #805 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 235 | #809 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 199 | #875 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 223 | #787 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 292 | #650 | 0.15 |
| 2001 | 363 | #570 | 0.19 |
| 2000 | 383 | #552 | 0.20 |
| 1999 | 295 | #617 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 238 | #701 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 183 | #805 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 161 | #863 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 110 | #1,076 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 59 | #1,573 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,037 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 62 | #1,482 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 72 | #1,328 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 84 | #1,191 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,301 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 48 | #1,543 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,461 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 67 | #1,159 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 53 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,211 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,163 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 76 | #1,046 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 78 | #1,034 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 63 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 51 | #1,302 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 42 | #1,450 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 21 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,990 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,779 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,991 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,369 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,386 Americans recorded as Shamar, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 16 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shamar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamar, and how old are they?
6,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,386 Americans ever recorded as Shamar. The median Shamar alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 5,039 people named Shamar (275 women and girls, 4,764 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,005 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 291 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,230 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,710 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 996 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Shamar born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 5 | #2,054 | 1.5× |
Where Shamar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shamar is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1969 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shamar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,602 babies since 1880, Shamar is the most given (74% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 42 babies (38%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shamar
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Shamar and names like it
- Compare Shamar and ShamirBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShamar peaked in 2000.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamar since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Shamar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.