Shamecca
Shamecca was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 245 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamecca by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamecca?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,503, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
21 babies in 1981, the peak
Shamecca peaked in 1981, when 21 girls were given it, #3,829 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,503 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,439 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,629 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 13 | #7,009 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,389 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,292 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,070 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,211 | 6.3 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,837 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,241 | 5.8 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 14 | #5,405 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #9,093 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,289 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,394 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,281 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,829 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,183 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,692 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,493 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,147 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,521 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,004 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamecca a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamecca has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamecca: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamecca, and how old are they?
An estimated 237 Americans named Shamecca and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 35 and 46. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 192 people named Shamecca (189 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 239 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.
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 Shamecca born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 7.5× |
Where Shamecca is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shamecca is most over-represented in New York: since 1975 it was given 7.5 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 Shamecca with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Shamecca?
Shamecca is a less common spelling of Shameka: SSA has recorded 245 Shamecca and 6,191 Shameka since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,230 babies since 1880, Shamecca is the seventh most given (2.4% 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 Shamecca
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 Shamecca and names like it
- Compare Shamecca and ShamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShamecca peaked in 1981.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamecca since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Shamecca.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamecca alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.