Shamiyah
#9,997 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shamiyah has been given to 719 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #9,997 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 52 recorded.
Babies named Shamiyah, 2025
1 in 332,000
Shamiyah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shamiyah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 161,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #9,997
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shamiyah 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shamiyah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shamiyahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shamiyah was born before 2009 — so the typical Shamiyah is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 90.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 719
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (329).
Is Shamiyah 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
- +5,010
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,824
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,033
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.36×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.2%
- Peak was 2008 (52)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Shamiyah
Shamiyah is not the most common spelling — Amiyah is, with 19.3% against Shamiyah's 0.74%.
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 Shamiyah is used
Across 1910–2025, Shamiyah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 482,344 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Illinois1 in —
- 5Mississippi1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7South Carolina1 in —
- 8Tennessee1 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. Shamiyah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shamiyah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shamiyah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shamiyah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.