Shamarr
Shamarr was last recorded in 2020, when 5 babies were given it; 304 Americans have been recorded with it between 1978 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamarr by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamarr?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,721, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
19 babies in 1999, the peak
Shamarr peaked in 1999, when 19 boys were given it, #3,957 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 5 | #13,721 | 2.9 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,882 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,542 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,559 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,522 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 8 | #9,530 | 4.2 |
| 2009 | 12 | #7,160 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,719 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 6 | #12,120 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,607 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 16 | #5,236 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 14 | #5,741 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,387 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,665 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,850 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,846 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,957 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,166 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,975 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,833 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,667 | 3.7 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,482 | 3.6 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,397 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,520 | 4.5 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,642 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,633 | 4.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,389 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 5 | #7,198 | 2.8 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,612 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamarr a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 304 Americans recorded as Shamarr, 2% are girls and 98% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shamarr: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamarr, and how old are they?
An estimated 297 Americans named Shamarr and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 262 people named Shamarr (16 women and girls, 246 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 295 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Shamarr?
Shamarr is a less common spelling of Shamar: SSA has recorded 304 Shamarr and 6,386 Shamar since 1880.
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 8,549 babies since 1880, Shamarr is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 none of their 37 babies recorded by SSA was a Shamarr (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shamarr
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 Shamarr and names like it
- Compare Shamarr and ShamarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamarr peaked in 1999.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Shamarr.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamarr alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.