Shamere
Shamere was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 293 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamere?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,463, in 2008; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1991, the peak
Shamere peaked in 1991, when 17 babies were given it (12 girls, #7,325 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | under 5 | 5 | #13,780 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 5 | #13,925 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 7 | #10,442 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 6 | #11,921 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 5 | #13,926 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 8 | #9,714 | |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,463 | 7 | #10,840 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 7 | #10,712 | |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,492 | 6 | #11,823 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,259 | 6 | #11,236 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | under 5 | 6 | #11,127 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,431 | 10 | #7,152 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 7 | #9,224 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #8,084 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,697 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,182 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,336 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,551 | 7 | #7,623 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,339 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,585 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,325 | 5 | #9,398 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,816 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,362 | under 5 | |
| 1988 | 11 | #7,028 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,868 | under 5 | |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,353 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,854 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,129 | under 5 | |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,142 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,237 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,998 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,106 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,564 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Shamere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 293 Americans recorded as Shamere, 64% are girls and 36% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shamere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamere, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Shamere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 20 and 38. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 295 people named Shamere (183 women and girls, 112 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 6,900 babies since 1880, Shamere is the sixth most given (4.2% 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 Shamere
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 Shamere and names like it
- Compare Shamere and ShamariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamere peaked in 1991.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shamere.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamere alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.