Shemika — girls' name

What the Data Says About Shemika

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,454 babies named Shemika between 1971 and 1997, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Shemika currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1997. The name reached its historical peak in 1980, when 127 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Shemika performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 799 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Shemika shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 100 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Shemika in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Shemika 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 1,454 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.