Shomari
Shomari was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,579 among boys’ names; 1,200 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Shomari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 25 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Shomari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Shomari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Shomari is “a male given name from Swahili.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Shomari?
#9,579 among boys’ names, 2025
Shomari fell from #7,438 in 2015 to #9,579 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 4.7 per million.
99 babies in 1992, the peak
Shomari peaked in 1992, when 99 babies were given it (55 boys, #1,614 among boys’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,579 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 7 | #10,760 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,700 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,612 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,812 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,761 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,526 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,031 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 6 | #11,914 | 3.2 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,438 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 8 | #9,485 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,555 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,464 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,966 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,681 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,796 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,894 | 4.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,210 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,338 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,161 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,967 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #3,099 | 15.7 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,172 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,212 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,510 | 12.2 |
| 1999 | 24 | #3,351 | 12.5 |
| 1998 | 30 | #2,769 | 15.7 |
| 1997 | 33 | #2,492 | 17.5 |
| 1996 | 34 | #2,371 | 17.9 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,089 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 42 | #2,003 | 21.7 |
| 1993 | 48 | #1,783 | 24.5 |
| 1992 | 55 | #1,614 | 27.5 |
| 1991 | 24 | #2,810 | 11.9 |
| 1990 | 29 | #2,420 | 14.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,454 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #2,841 | 10.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,202 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 15 | #3,245 | 8.1 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,584 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,516 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 26 | #2,071 | 14.5 |
| 1982 | 32 | #1,809 | 17.6 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,540 | 22.3 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,761 | 18.5 |
| 1979 | 28 | #1,935 | 16.3 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,563 | 22.5 |
| 1977 | 37 | #1,540 | 22.5 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,923 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,823 | 17.3 |
| 1974 | 24 | #1,929 | 15.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,994 | 7.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Shomari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,200 Americans recorded as Shomari, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Shomari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Shomari, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,200 Americans ever recorded as Shomari. The median Shomari alive today is 33 years old; half are between 25 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 957 people named Shomari (88 women and girls, 869 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,128 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 204 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 532 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 316 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 96 |
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 Shomari born?
The states with the most babies named Shomari are New York, California and Florida, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 189 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| California | 39 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 29 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Shomari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Shomari is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 2.3 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 Shomari 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 Shomari
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 Shomari and names like it
- Compare Shomari and JamalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sShomari peaked in 1992.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Shomari since 1910.
- The top names of 1992The year the most babies were named Shomari.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Shomari alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with SMost given first.