Shameca
Shameca was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 296 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shameca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shameca?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,325, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1980, the peak
Shameca peaked in 1980, when 29 girls were given it, #3,054 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #15,325 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,291 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,199 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,987 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,630 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,571 | 5.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,699 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,696 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,976 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,921 | 8.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 23 | #3,527 | 13.8 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,777 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,323 | 15.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,054 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,643 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,367 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,465 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,915 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,793 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,747 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,208 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shameca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shameca has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shameca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shameca, and how old are they?
An estimated 284 Americans named Shameca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 41 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 241 people named Shameca (237 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 287 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.
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 Shameca?
Shameca is a less common spelling of Shameka: SSA has recorded 296 Shameca and 6,191 Shameka since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,125 babies since 1880, Shameca is the seventh most given (2.0% 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 Shameca
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 Shameca and names like it
- Compare Shameca and ShamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShameca peaked in 1980.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shameca since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Shameca.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shameca alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.