Shamir
#4,834 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shamir has been given to 1,726 babies in the U.S. since 1975. In 2025 it ranked #4,834 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2010, with 49 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.
Babies named Shamir, 2025
1 in 158,000
Shamir 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shamir over time
In 2025, Shamir 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 Shamir?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 158,000
- 21 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 81,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,834
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 109,425 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shamir sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamir. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamirs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamir was born before 2005 — so the typical Shamir is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 27.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 61.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,512
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 27.1% of all recorded uses (409).
Is Shamir 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
- −953
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,867
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,034
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.49×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 42.9%
- Peak was 2010 (49)
- Years since peak
- 15
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.8% average annual change
Spellings of Shamir
Shamir is not the most common spelling — Amir is, with 41.5% against Shamir's 1.1%.
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 Shamir is used
Across 1910–2025, Shamir was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 130,330 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2New York1 in 50,000
- 3Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Georgia1 in —
- 7Illinois1 in —
- 8North Carolina1 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. Shamir has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shamir around the world
Where Shamir 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 & Wales1997–2013#4,685in 2013
- France1992–2008#5,298in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Shamir by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shamir
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shamir
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.