Shamari
Shamari was last recorded in 2024, when 21 babies were given it; 1,907 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,880 Americans named Shamari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamari?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,260, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 2000, the peak
Shamari peaked in 2000, when 118 babies were given it (80 girls, #2,070 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #13,260 | 14 | #6,416 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,206 | 13 | #6,831 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,387 | 12 | #7,185 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,035 | 14 | #6,287 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,258 | 19 | #5,002 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,664 | 14 | #6,352 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,065 | 10 | #8,059 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,711 | 11 | #7,463 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,926 | 23 | #4,444 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,218 | 19 | #5,027 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #7,254 | 13 | #6,565 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,088 | 20 | #4,767 |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,087 | 21 | #4,647 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,303 | 12 | #6,928 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,586 | 26 | #3,971 |
| 2009 | 31 | #4,790 | 33 | #3,387 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,368 | 32 | #3,475 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,369 | 39 | #3,015 |
| 2006 | 47 | #3,459 | 21 | #4,481 |
| 2005 | 55 | #2,958 | 27 | #3,599 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,317 | 41 | #2,628 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,173 | 35 | #2,832 |
| 2002 | 49 | #3,001 | 35 | #2,738 |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,560 | 28 | #3,210 |
| 2000 | 80 | #2,070 | 38 | #2,512 |
| 1999 | 51 | #2,727 | 19 | #3,956 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,470 | 37 | #2,382 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,024 | 27 | #2,886 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,707 | 28 | #2,731 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,319 | 20 | #3,406 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,008 | 27 | #2,743 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,976 | 18 | #3,627 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,305 | 15 | #4,064 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,324 | 12 | #4,707 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,100 | 8 | #6,318 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,615 | 9 | #5,519 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,195 | 6 | #7,104 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,860 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,641 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 7 | #5,480 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 5 | #7,161 | |
| 1982 | under 5 | 7 | #5,528 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,136 | 11 | #3,815 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,125 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,271 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shamari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,907 Americans recorded as Shamari, 56% are girls and 44% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shamari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamari, and how old are they?
1,880 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,907 Americans ever recorded as Shamari. The median Shamari alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,425 people named Shamari (794 women and girls, 631 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,781 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 376 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 321 |
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 Shamari born?
The states with the most babies named Shamari are Florida, New York and Illinois, with 63% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 109 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 96 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 39 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 36 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 27 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| South Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shamari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shamari is most over-represented in Florida: since 1979 it was given 1.1 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 girls’ 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 Shamari 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,236 babies since 1880, Shamari is the most given (26% 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 Shamari
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 Shamari and names like it
- Compare Shamari and ShamaraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShamari peaked in 2000.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamari since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Shamari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.