Shamiyah
Shamiyah was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,997 among girls’ names; 719 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamiyah?
#9,997 among girls’ names, 2025
Shamiyah fell from #4,964 in 2015 to #9,997 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 6.2 per million.
52 babies in 2008, the peak
Shamiyah peaked in 2008, when 52 girls were given it, #3,257 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,997 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,007 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #12,029 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,578 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 16 | #7,211 | 9.8 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,173 | 9.9 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,644 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,093 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,251 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,586 | 13.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,964 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,434 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,293 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,639 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,594 | 25.0 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,682 | 24.2 |
| 2009 | 34 | #4,465 | 18.5 |
| 2008 | 52 | #3,257 | 27.5 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,837 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,345 | 17.9 |
| 2005 | 39 | #3,796 | 21.1 |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,555 | 22.9 |
| 2003 | 25 | #5,067 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,081 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,266 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,947 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,177 | 11.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,189 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,907 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,184 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamiyah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamiyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 713 Americans named Shamiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 510 people named Shamiyah (504 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 7,415 babies since 1880, Shamiyah is the fifth most given (9.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 20 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 Shamiyah
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 Shamiyah and names like it
- Compare Shamiyah and ShamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShamiyah peaked in 2008.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Shamiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.