Shammah
#10,506 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shammah has been given to 112 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #10,506 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1978, with 7 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 65% boys, 35% girls all-time.
Babies named Shammah, 2025
1 in 474,000
Shammah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Shammah over time
In 2025, Shammah 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 Shammah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,506
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shammah 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 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shammah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shammahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shammah was born before 2014 — so the typical Shammah is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 34.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 72.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 73
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Shammah 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 1978 (7)
- Years since peak
- 47
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 10.3% average annual change
Spellings of Shammah
Shammah is not the most common spelling — Shamar is, with 74.1% against Shammah's 0.88%.
Shammah around the world
Where Shammah 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 & Wales2009–2021#4,789in 2021
- France2018–2022#6,911in 2022
- South Australia1981–1981#425in 1981
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shammah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Shammah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shammah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.