Shamaya
Shamaya was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,894 among girls’ names; 833 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamaya?
#16,894 among girls’ names, 2025
Shamaya fell from #8,363 in 2015 to #16,894 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 3.1 per million.
57 babies in 2006, the peak
Shamaya peaked in 2006, when 57 girls were given it, #3,014 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,894 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,006 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,577 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #17,143 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,606 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,540 | 7.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,712 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,730 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,363 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,823 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 15 | #8,089 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,077 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,334 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #5,753 | 13.5 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,357 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,116 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 49 | #3,421 | 25.5 |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,014 | 30.0 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,309 | 25.4 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,430 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 48 | #3,119 | 26.3 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,961 | 18.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,767 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,442 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,786 | 18.0 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,610 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,788 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,724 | 9.7 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,978 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,672 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,387 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,951 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,868 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,778 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,787 | 8.1 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,064 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 6 | #11,016 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,401 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,126 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,141 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 8 | #8,072 | 4.7 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,137 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,001 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 822 Americans named Shamaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 690 people named Shamaya (682 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,568 babies since 1880, Shamaya is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 20 babies (25%), the third 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 Shamaya
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 Shamaya and names like it
- Compare Shamaya and ShamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShamaya peaked in 2006.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Shamaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.