Shamieka
Shamieka was last recorded in 1993, when 8 babies were given it; 227 Americans have been recorded with it between 1975 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamieka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamieka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,390, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1979, the peak
Shamieka peaked in 1979, when 20 girls were given it, #3,876 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 8 | #10,390 | 4.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,200 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,381 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,914 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,159 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,558 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,144 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,297 | 8.1 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,290 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,395 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 12 | #5,834 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,501 | 10.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,482 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,876 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,639 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,390 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,133 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,005 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamieka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamieka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamieka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamieka, and how old are they?
An estimated 218 Americans named Shamieka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 39 and 47. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 193 people named Shamieka (189 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,107 babies since 1880, Shamieka is the eighth most given (1.5% 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 Shamieka
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 Shamieka and names like it
- Compare Shamieka and ShamekaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShamieka peaked in 1979.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamieka since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shamieka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamieka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.