Shamara
Shamara was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,660 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,620 Americans named Shamara and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamara by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamara?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,245, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1989, the peak
Shamara peaked in 1989, when 66 girls were given it, #1,955 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,245 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,990 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,142 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,277 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,595 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,478 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,004 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,707 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 6 | #16,213 | 3.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,971 | 4.6 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #11,129 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,631 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,167 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,277 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,889 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,969 | 20.8 |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,447 | 17.4 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,794 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,971 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,453 | 23.0 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,643 | 20.6 |
| 2001 | 47 | #3,037 | 26.1 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,163 | 16.5 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,633 | 30.4 |
| 1998 | 45 | #2,916 | 25.5 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,145 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 40 | #3,012 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,778 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,573 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,627 | 26.0 |
| 1992 | 61 | #2,213 | 33.1 |
| 1991 | 59 | #2,230 | 31.5 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,043 | 34.8 |
| 1989 | 66 | #1,955 | 35.8 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,926 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,896 | 35.1 |
| 1986 | 60 | #1,881 | 35.0 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,349 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 51 | #2,015 | 30.3 |
| 1983 | 37 | #2,508 | 22.1 |
| 1982 | 54 | #1,962 | 31.9 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,906 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,790 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 38 | #2,463 | 23.7 |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,619 | 21.5 |
| 1977 | 31 | #2,705 | 20.2 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,639 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,906 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,400 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,133 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,032 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,214 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamara a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamara has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamara: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamara, and how old are they?
1,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,660 Americans ever recorded as Shamara. The median Shamara alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,414 people named Shamara (1,403 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 203 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 835 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 511 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 70 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,246 babies since 1880, Shamara is the second most given (23% of them).
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 Shamara
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 Shamara and names like it
- Compare Shamara and ShamariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShamara peaked in 1989.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamara since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Shamara.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamara alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.