Shamarie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shamarie has been given to 139 babies in the U.S. since 1966. 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 1969, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% girls, 8% boys all-time.
Babies named Shamarie, 2009
1 in 637,000
Shamarie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shamarie over time
In 2009, Shamarie went to 100% girls and 0% 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 Shamarie?
Shamarie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2009
- 1 in 637,000
- 6 of 3,820,315 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 306,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2009
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 441,341 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shamarie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2009 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 441,341 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamarie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamaries were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamarie was born before 1991 — so the typical Shamarie is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 41.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 57.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 128
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 41.4% of all recorded uses (53).
Is Shamarie 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1969 (11)
- Years since peak
- 56
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.0% average annual change
Spellings of Shamarie
Shamarie is not the most common spelling — Samaria is, with 23.3% against Shamarie's 0.66%.
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.
Shamarie around the world
Where Shamarie 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.
- South Australia2010–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shamarie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shamarie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shamarie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.