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Shamar

#5,809 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Shamar has been given to 6,386 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #5,809 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2000, with 383 recorded.

Babies named Shamar, 2025

1 in 207,000

Shamar over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shamar: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shamar means

Shamar is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shamar is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,137 boys were recorded with the name Shamar between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 383 in 2000; its best national rank was #552 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,063 in 2020 to #5,809 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,433 in 2015 to #5,809 in 2025.

In the United States, 249 girls were recorded with the name Shamar between 1969 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1983; its best national rank was #5,088 in 1983.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shamar?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,809
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shamar sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shamars were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamar was born before 2002 — so the typical Shamar is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,137
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (2,538).

Is Shamar rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−2,486
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,746
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,376
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.13×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
4.2%
Peak was 2000 (383)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#552
2000

Spellings of Shamar

Shamar is not the most common spelling — Lamar is, with 32.5% against Shamar's 5.9%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shamar is used

Across 2016–2025, Shamar was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 35,855 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 14,286
  2. 2Georgia1 in 16,667
  3. 3New York1 in 16,667
  4. 4Maryland1 in 20,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 33,333
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Shamar around the world

Where Shamar ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2019–2019
    #5,482
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,281
    in 2018

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shamar

People whose public names include Shamar, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shamar by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,809
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,746
Best rank ever
#552
2000
Peak year
2000
383 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,137
Count in 2025
16

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,088
1983
Peak year
1983
14 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
249
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shamar

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shamar

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shamar, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shamar

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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