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Shamika

Girls' name

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

Shamika has been given to 5,067 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 1981, with 337 recorded.

Babies named Shamika, 2018

1 in 586,000

Shamika over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shamika: meaning, origin, and history

Modern coinage; no established literal translation

coinages

What Shamika means

Shamika is a modern given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Shamika is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Shamika is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,061 girls were recorded with the name Shamika between 1971 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 337 in 1981; its best national rank was #554 in 1981.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Shamika between 1990 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1990; its best national rank was #7,951 in 1990.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Shamika?

Shamika had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shamika 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamika. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shamikas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamika was born before 1984 — so the typical Shamika is around 41 today.

Median birth year
1984
About 41 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,061
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1980s — 54.8% of all recorded uses (2,772).

Is Shamika 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1981 (337)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#554
1981

Spellings of Shamika

Shamika is not the most common spelling — Tamika is, with 15.1% against Shamika's 3.4%.

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 Shamika is used

Across 1910–2025, Shamika was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 32,860 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1District of Columbia1 in 14,286
  2. 2Georgia1 in 14,286
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 16,667
  4. 4Florida1 in 20,000
  5. 5Louisiana1 in 20,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 20,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 20,000
  8. 8New York1 in 20,000

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

Shamika around the world

Where Shamika 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
    1996–2012
    #4,838
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1997–1997
    #1,674
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    1990–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Shamika 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
#554
1981
Peak year
1981
337 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
5,061
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,951
1990
Peak year
1990
6 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Shamika

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

ShanikaSharikaShameikaShanellShaniyaShayleeShaelynShatikaShaneikaShanayaShakiraShaniceShantelShaindyShanelleShaylynShanvikaShastaShaniahShaylinSharlaShantalShanaeShamira

Names with a curve like Shamika

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

KeshiaJoshuaShavonBrandonMeghannMatthewCasieTenishaShastaTaneshaJustinTarah

Sibling names for Shamika

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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