Shamia
Shamia was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,469 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,440 Americans named Shamia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 23 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,154, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
74 babies in 1999, the peak
Shamia peaked in 1999, when 74 girls were given it, #2,090 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #10,154 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,388 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,991 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,260 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,284 | 3.6 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,448 | 2.8 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,219 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,329 | 3.9 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,367 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,094 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 16 | #7,726 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,168 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 23 | #6,061 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,925 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,654 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,670 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,571 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,954 | 29.4 |
| 2003 | 50 | #3,031 | 27.4 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,132 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,729 | 30.5 |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,448 | 34.7 |
| 1999 | 74 | #2,090 | 41.7 |
| 1998 | 57 | #2,453 | 32.3 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,146 | 21.8 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,947 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,480 | 13.1 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,767 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 48 | #2,588 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,373 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,577 | 25.6 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,836 | 21.6 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,513 | 25.0 |
| 1988 | 37 | #2,849 | 20.8 |
| 1987 | 41 | #2,516 | 23.6 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,458 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,585 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,614 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,188 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,360 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,909 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 28 | #3,119 | 16.9 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,316 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,416 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,572 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,433 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,748 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,210 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 48 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamia, and how old are they?
1,440 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,469 Americans ever recorded as Shamia. The median Shamia alive today is 29 years old; half are between 23 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,220 people named Shamia (1,211 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,420 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 624 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 650 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 70 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 7,897 babies since 1880, Shamia is the second most given (19% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Shamia (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Shamia
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 Shamia and names like it
- Compare Shamia and ShamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamia peaked in 1999.
- Maryland’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamia since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Shamia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.