Shammah — boys' name

What the Data Says About Shammah

The Social Security Administration has registered 66 babies named Shammah between 1978 and 2022, spanning 45 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Shammah currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1978, when 7 babies received it in a single year. Shammah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 39 additional births since 2013.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shammah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 25 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Shammah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shammah 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 66 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.