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Shamira

#9,369 in 2025Girls' name

Guardian, protector

Shamira has been given to 1,548 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #9,369 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1991, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Shamira, 2025

1 in 301,000

Shamira over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shamira: meaning, origin, and history

Guardian, protector

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shamira means

Shamira means “guardian, protector”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,548 girls were recorded with the name Shamira between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1991; its best national rank was #1,986 in 1991.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,845 in 2020 to #9,369 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,997 in 2015 to #9,369 in 2025.

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 Shamira?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,369
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shamira 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 2025 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamira. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shamiras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamira was born before 1996 — so the typical Shamira is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
30.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,548
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 30.8% of all recorded uses (477).

Is Shamira 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
−1,012
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,476
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,372
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.50×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.7%
Peak was 1991 (70)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,986
1991

Spellings of Shamira

Shamira is not the most common spelling — Amira is, with 12.7% against Shamira's 0.77%.

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 Shamira is used

Across 1910–2025, Shamira was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 206,760 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maryland1 in 50,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Florida1 in —
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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

Shamira around the world

Where Shamira 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
    1996–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1989–2013
    #6,777
    in 2013
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Shamira by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,369
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,476
Best rank ever
#1,986
1991
Peak year
1991
70 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,548
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Shamira

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

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Sibling names for Shamira

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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