Shamirah
Shamirah was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 218 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamirah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamirah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,749, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1992, the peak
Shamirah peaked in 1992, when 17 girls were given it, #5,666 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,749 | 2.9 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,735 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,719 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,309 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,432 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,042 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,559 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,789 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,561 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,380 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 12 | #8,649 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,702 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,188 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,235 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,443 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,553 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,557 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,666 | 9.2 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,326 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,212 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,088 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | #9,066 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,616 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,436 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,815 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamirah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamirah 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 Shamirah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamirah, and how old are they?
An estimated 214 Americans named Shamirah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 20 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 206 people named Shamirah (206 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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 Shamirah?
Shamirah is a less common spelling of Shamira: SSA has recorded 218 Shamirah and 1,548 Shamira since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,844 babies since 1880, Shamirah is the fifth most given (4.5% 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 Shamirah
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 Shamirah and names like it
- Compare Shamirah and ShamiraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShamirah peaked in 1992.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamirah since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shamirah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamirah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.