Shemar
Shemar was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,144 among boys’ names; 2,382 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,340 Americans named Shemar and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shemar by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shemar?
#8,144 among boys’ names, 2025
Shemar fell from #2,594 in 2015 to #8,144 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.0 to 5.9 per million.
341 babies in 2001, the peak
Shemar peaked in 2001, when 341 babies were given it (335 boys, #594 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,144 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 12 | #7,197 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,876 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #6,098 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 27 | #3,983 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,636 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,306 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 36 | #3,221 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 35 | #3,299 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,667 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,594 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,741 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 41 | #2,836 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,783 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 50 | #2,499 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,232 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 34 | #3,320 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 45 | #2,746 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 79 | #1,844 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 79 | #1,766 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 77 | #1,733 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 61 | #1,983 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,606 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 163 | #971 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 335 | #594 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 266 | #671 | 0.14 |
| 1999 | 179 | #847 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 152 | #929 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,072 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 146 | #904 | 0.08 |
| 1995 | 50 | #1,771 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,748 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shemar a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shemar has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Shemar: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shemar, and how old are they?
2,340 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,382 Americans ever recorded as Shemar. The median Shemar alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 2,065 people named Shemar (38 women and girls, 2,027 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,251 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 202 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 359 |
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 Shemar born?
The states with the most babies named Shemar are New York, Florida and Texas, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 286 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Florida | 251 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Texas | 104 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 94 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Louisiana | 87 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| North Carolina | 83 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| South Carolina | 79 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Illinois | 68 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Maryland | 62 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| California | 53 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Shemar is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shemar is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 2.0 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 boys’ 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 Shemar with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Shemar
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 Shemar and names like it
- Compare Shemar and TreveonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sShemar peaked in 2001.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shemar since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Shemar.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Shemar alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with SMost given first.