Shamika — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shamika

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,061 babies named Shamika between 1971 and 2018, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shamika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1981, when 337 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shamika performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 2,772 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shamika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 609 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Shamika in 27 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shamika 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 5,061 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.