Shamari
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shamari has been given to 1,907 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2000, with 80 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 56% girls, 44% boys all-time.
Babies named Shamari, 2024
1 in 478,000
Shamari 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Shamari over time
In 2024, Shamari went to 33% girls and 67% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Shamari?
Shamari had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 478,000
- 7 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 231,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 331,009 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shamari sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamaris were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamari was born before 2003 — so the typical Shamari is around 22 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 48.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,063
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (515).
Is Shamari 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
- —
- 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 2000 (80)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.1% average annual change
Spellings of Shamari
Shamari is not the most common spelling — Shari is, with 35.4% against Shamari's 0.92%.
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 Shamari is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Shamari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 378,353 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2Georgia1 in 100,000
- 3South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Illinois1 in —
- 6Louisiana1 in —
- 7Michigan1 in —
- 8Missouri1 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. Shamari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Shamari is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Shamari was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 270,169 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
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. Shamari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shamari around the world
Where Shamari 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 & Wales2000–2001#3,998in 2001
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Shamari by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shamari
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shamari
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.