Shami
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shami has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1965, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 68% girls, 32% boys all-time.
Babies named Shami, 1980
1 in 574,000
Shami 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shami over time
In 2025, Shami went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Shami?
Shami had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1980
- 1 in 574,000
- 6 of 3,444,198 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 277,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1980
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 397,891 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shami sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 397,891 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shami. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shami was born before 1974 — so the typical Shami is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (6).
Is Shami 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 1965 (6)
- Years since peak
- 60
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Shami
Shami is not the most common spelling — Sheri is, with 15.6% against Shami's <0.01%.
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.
Shami around the world
Where Shami 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.
- France2025–2025#5,126in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Shami by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Shami
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shami
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.