Shamira
Shamira was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,369 among girls’ names; 1,548 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,520 Americans named Shamira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 20 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamira?
#9,369 among girls’ names, 2025
Shamira fell from #5,997 in 2015 to #9,369 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 6.8 per million.
70 babies in 1991, the peak
Shamira peaked in 1991, when 70 girls were given it, #1,986 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,369 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,357 | 8.0 |
| 2023 | 9 | #11,040 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #11,104 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,193 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,845 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,642 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,757 | 12.9 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,582 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,800 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,997 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #8,001 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,964 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,862 | 13.1 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,727 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,083 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,555 | 18.0 |
| 2008 | 32 | #4,744 | 16.9 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,469 | 25.0 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,554 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 41 | #3,632 | 22.2 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,611 | 22.3 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,338 | 24.1 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,844 | 29.5 |
| 2001 | 37 | #3,620 | 20.5 |
| 2000 | 39 | #3,443 | 21.5 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,625 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,284 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,285 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,130 | 21.7 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,642 | 26.7 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,493 | 28.6 |
| 1993 | 50 | #2,515 | 27.6 |
| 1992 | 62 | #2,178 | 33.6 |
| 1991 | 70 | #1,986 | 37.3 |
| 1990 | 51 | #2,426 | 26.9 |
| 1989 | 60 | #2,086 | 32.5 |
| 1988 | 40 | #2,686 | 22.5 |
| 1987 | 46 | #2,325 | 26.5 |
| 1986 | 43 | #2,374 | 25.1 |
| 1985 | 24 | #3,600 | 13.9 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,261 | 26.1 |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,127 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,154 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,414 | 15.0 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,700 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,756 | 13.1 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,305 | 6.5 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,391 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,481 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,822 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,921 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,274 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamira, and how old are they?
1,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,548 Americans ever recorded as Shamira. The median Shamira alive today is 30 years old; half are between 20 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,279 people named Shamira (1,277 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,469 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 687 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 581 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 163 |
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 7,246 babies since 1880, Shamira is the third most given (21% 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 Shamira
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 Shamira and names like it
- Compare Shamira and ShamariBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamira peaked in 1991.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamira since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Shamira.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shamira alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.