Shema — unisex name

What the Data Says About Shema

The Social Security Administration has registered 35 babies named Shema between 1975 and 2001, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shema currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 8 babies received it in a single year. Shema is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 20 additional births since 2020.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shema performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 14 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Shema shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shema 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 35 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.