Shamica
Shamica was last recorded in 2001, when 5 babies were given it; 606 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 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 Shamica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,505, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1983, the peak
Shamica peaked in 1983, when 52 girls were given it, #1,988 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 5 | #17,505 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,337 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,462 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,896 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,222 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,186 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,779 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,087 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,620 | 10.7 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,440 | 10.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 27 | #3,341 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,067 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,663 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,988 | 31.1 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,361 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,110 | 29.4 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,092 | 30.1 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,379 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 39 | #2,343 | 25.5 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,979 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,916 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,740 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 13 | #4,666 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,134 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,126 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamica, and how old are they?
An estimated 582 Americans named Shamica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 40 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 471 people named Shamica (465 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 589 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).
How common is the spelling Shamica?
Shamica is a less common spelling of Shamika: SSA has recorded 606 Shamica and 5,067 Shamika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 13,641 babies since 1880, Shamica is the fourth most given (4.4% 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 Shamica
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 Shamica and names like it
- Compare Shamica and ShamikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sShamica peaked in 1983.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamica since 1910.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Shamica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.