Shameek — boys' name
239 babies named Shameek in U.S. Social Security records since 1980, with the highest year being 1985. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
47% of everyone ever named Shameek was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Shameek in 1985 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Shameek
The Social Security Administration has registered 239 babies named Shameek between 1980 and 2023, spanning 44 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shameek currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Shameek performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shameek shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 134 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shameek in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Shameek in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 239 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Shameek at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Shameek popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1980
- Peak year (1985)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 44 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
239 total births across 44 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1985 with 15 births in a single year.
Shameek popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 1981 (Shameek as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Shameek accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Shameek by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 113 births that decade — 47% of Shameek's all-time total
Shameek decade highlights
- Peak decade 113 births
- Runner-up 59 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Shameek's strongest decade
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 47% of all-time use.
Shameek by state
Where Shameek concentrates geographically — total births since 1980
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 134 | 56.1% |
134 of 239 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 56.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 56.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1980–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.