Shamara
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shamara has been given to 1,660 babies in the U.S. since 1971. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 66 recorded.
Babies named Shamara, 2023
1 in 663,000
Shamara over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shamara?
Shamara had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shamara sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamaras were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamara was born before 1991 — so the typical Shamara is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 31.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 30.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,660
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 31.7% of all recorded uses (526).
Is Shamara 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1989 (66)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.3% average annual change
Spellings of Shamara
Shamara is not the most common spelling — Tamara is, with 48.4% against Shamara's 0.61%.
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 Shamara is used
Across 1910–2025, Shamara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 264,633 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 4New York1 in 100,000
- 5California1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8Louisiana1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Shamara has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shamara around the world
Where Shamara 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 & Wales1996–2010#5,707in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shamara by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shamara
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shamara
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.