Shemaiah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shemaiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 269 babies named Shemaiah between 1979 and 2025, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shemaiah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shemaiah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 118 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Shemaiah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shemaiah 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 269 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.