Shemica
Shemica was last recorded in 1992, when 5 babies were given it; 201 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shemica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Shemica?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,217, in 1992; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1979, the peak
Shemica peaked in 1979, when 29 girls were given it, #2,982 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 5 | #15,217 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,202 | 2.7 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,216 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,894 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,714 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,394 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,702 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,843 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,906 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,245 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 15 | #4,942 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,982 | 18.1 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,844 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 18 | #4,038 | 11.7 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,853 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,446 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,302 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Shemica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Shemica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Shemica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shemica, and how old are they?
An estimated 193 Americans named Shemica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 41 and 48. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 181 people named Shemica (181 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 195 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
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 Shemica?
Shemica is a less common spelling of Shemika: SSA has recorded 201 Shemica and 1,454 Shemika since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 3,569 babies since 1880, Shemica is the third most given (5.6% 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 Shemica
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 Shemica and names like it
- Compare Shemica and ShemikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sShemica peaked in 1979.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shemica since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Shemica.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Shemica alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with SMost given first.