Shamir
Shamir was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,834 among boys’ names; 1,726 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,690 Americans named Shamir and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamir by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamir?
#4,834 among boys’ names, 2025
Shamir fell from #2,800 in 2015 to #4,834 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 22.4 to 12.3 per million.
54 babies in 1991, the peak
Shamir peaked in 1991, when 54 babies were given it (43 boys, #1,854 among boys’ names). The 21 births of 2025 are 39% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 21 | #4,834 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 29 | #3,881 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 22 | #4,716 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 27 | #4,071 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 40 | #3,066 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 40 | #2,967 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 40 | #3,041 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 33 | #3,428 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 33 | #3,427 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 49 | #2,582 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 43 | #2,800 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 30 | #3,602 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 31 | #3,481 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 33 | #3,349 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 44 | #2,734 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,388 | 49 | #2,545 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,736 | 34 | #3,319 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 48 | #2,622 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,218 | 35 | #3,235 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,886 | 47 | #2,568 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,109 | 35 | #3,003 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,560 | 40 | #2,680 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,215 | 43 | #2,458 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 41 | #2,461 | |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,019 | 44 | #2,297 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,701 | 42 | #2,318 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,698 | 39 | #2,333 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,815 | 35 | #2,494 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,634 | 24 | #3,136 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,183 | 23 | #3,181 |
| 1995 | under 5 | 21 | #3,280 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 31 | #2,485 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,342 | 32 | #2,383 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,429 | 39 | #2,030 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,869 | 43 | #1,854 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,769 | 27 | #2,539 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,874 | 37 | #1,982 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,258 | 36 | #1,873 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,241 | 29 | #2,105 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,435 | 12 | #3,843 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,435 | 15 | #3,193 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,455 | 24 | #2,223 |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,090 | 39 | #1,558 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 12 | #3,649 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,816 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 5 | #7,122 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,191 |
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 Shamir a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,726 Americans recorded as Shamir, 12% are girls and 88% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shamir: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamir, and how old are they?
1,690 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,726 Americans ever recorded as Shamir. The median Shamir alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,441 people named Shamir (224 women and girls, 1,217 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,529 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 537 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 705 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 435 |
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).
Where are babies named Shamir born?
The states with the most babies named Shamir are New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with 91% of its births recorded by state since 1910; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 257 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 163 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| New Jersey | 156 | not ranked | 3.2× |
| Florida | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| California | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.0× |
Where Shamir is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shamir is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1975 it was given 3.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Shamir with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 8,602 babies since 1880, Shamir is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 42 babies (50%), the most given that year.
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 Shamir
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 Shamir and names like it
- Compare Shamir and ShamarBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamir peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamir since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shamir.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamir alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.