Shamyia
Shamyia was last recorded in 2015, when 5 babies were given it; 350 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shamyia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shamyia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,709, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 2002, the peak
Shamyia peaked in 2002, when 30 girls were given it, #4,261 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,709 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,894 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,368 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,736 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 10 | #11,067 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,703 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,737 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,318 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,766 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,311 | 11.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 26 | #5,088 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,715 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,379 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,261 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,267 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,898 | 10.5 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,137 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 17 | #6,020 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,639 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,441 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,958 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 11 | #8,026 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,583 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,051 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,270 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,063 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shamyia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shamyia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shamyia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shamyia, and how old are they?
An estimated 346 Americans named Shamyia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 19 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 308 people named Shamyia (306 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
How common is the spelling Shamyia?
Shamyia is a less common spelling of Shamya: SSA has recorded 350 Shamyia and 2,172 Shamya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,439 babies since 1880, Shamyia is the seventh most given (4.7% 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 Shamyia
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 Shamyia and names like it
- Compare Shamyia and ShamyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShamyia peaked in 2002.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shamyia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Shamyia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shamyia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.