Shamya
Shamya was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,895 among girls’ names; 2,172 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,150 Americans named Shamya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 18 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamya?
#16,895 among girls’ names, 2025
Shamya fell from #5,634 in 2015 to #16,895 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 3.1 per million.
174 babies in 2005, the peak
Shamya peaked in 2005, when 174 girls were given it, #1,287 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,895 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #15,008 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,207 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #12,079 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,194 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,960 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,363 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,362 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,051 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,971 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,634 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,638 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 47 | #3,398 | 26.8 |
| 2012 | 52 | #3,201 | 29.5 |
| 2011 | 72 | #2,531 | 40.9 |
| 2010 | 86 | #2,254 | 48.4 |
| 2009 | 104 | #2,002 | 56.6 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,618 | 74.6 |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,643 | 70.7 |
| 2006 | 150 | #1,479 | 78.9 |
| 2005 | 174 | #1,287 | 94.2 |
| 2004 | 170 | #1,268 | 92.6 |
| 2003 | 165 | #1,269 | 90.3 |
| 2002 | 125 | #1,517 | 69.6 |
| 2001 | 144 | #1,338 | 80.0 |
| 2000 | 142 | #1,331 | 78.2 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,354 | 73.9 |
| 1998 | 60 | #2,360 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,789 | 12.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,573 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,339 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,931 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,392 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,355 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,202 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,990 | 4.2 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,437 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 5 | #12,124 | 2.9 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,692 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamya, and how old are they?
2,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,172 Americans ever recorded as Shamya. The median Shamya alive today is 21 years old; half are between 18 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 1,634 people named Shamya (1,630 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,108 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 75 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,850 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 220 |
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 Shamya born?
The states with the most babies named Shamya are Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 190 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| North Carolina | 151 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Florida | 135 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 119 | not ranked | 4.0× |
| Texas | 96 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 92 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 74 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Virginia | 73 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 72 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 65 | not ranked | 2.9× |
Where Shamya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shamya is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1983 it was given 4.0 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 girls’ 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 Shamya 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,897 babies since 1880, Shamya is the most given (28% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 20 babies (25%), the second 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 Shamya
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 Shamya and names like it
- Compare Shamya and ShamiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShamya peaked in 2005.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamya since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Shamya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.