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Shameka

Girls' name

Variant of Shamika

Shameka has been given to 6,191 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 1980, with 452 recorded.

Babies named Shameka, 2010

1 in 616,000

Shameka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shameka: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Shamika

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shameka means

Shameka is a variant of Shamika.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Shameka is used in African American (Modern).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʃə.ˈmi.kə/ for Shameka.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Shamika.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,191 girls were recorded with the name Shameka between 1971 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 452 in 1980; its best national rank was #471 in 1980.

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.

How common is Shameka?

Shameka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shameka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shameka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shamekas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shameka was born before 1983 — so the typical Shameka is around 42 today.

Median birth year
1983
About 42 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,191
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (3,354).

Is Shameka 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 1980 (452)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#471
1980

Spellings of Shameka

Shameka is not the most common spelling — Tameka is, with 20.9% against Shameka's 10.2%.

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 Shameka is used

Across 1910–2025, Shameka was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 7,692 girls, against 1 in 24,606 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

013 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 7,692
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 8,333
  3. 3Georgia1 in 9,091
  4. 4Louisiana1 in 9,091
  5. 5Alabama1 in 10,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 11,111
  7. 7District of Columbia1 in 12,500
  8. 8Florida1 in 12,500

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. Shameka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Shameka around the world

Where Shameka 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
    1996–1996
    #3,795
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1994–1994
    #716
    in 1994

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Shameka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#471
1980
Peak year
1980
452 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
6,191
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shameka

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

ShanekaSharekaShaniyaShayleeShameekaShanellShakiraShaniceShantelShaelynShanayaSharlaShaneekaShaindyShanelleShaylynShastaShaniahShaylinShantalShanaeShanikaShamiraShaila

Names with a curve like Shameka

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

KeshiaMatthewShavonTiffanieJoshuaBrandonShastaMeghannShanteTenishaTaneshaCasie

Sibling names for Shameka

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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