Shatima — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shatima

The Social Security Administration has registered 172 babies named Shatima between 1974 and 1999, spanning 26 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shatima currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shatima performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 83 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shatima shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 71 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Shatima in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shatima 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 172 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.